On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:35 AM, hans wulf wrote:
> I am wondering how the catchup mode of a hot synchron slave server works on
> 9.1.3 if there is no WAL archive.
>
> Can the slave only request WALs that are still in the xlog directory of the
> master server? Or does the master regenerate some k
On 04/08/2012 03:51 AM, hans wulf wrote:
Why would you not want to maintain a WAL archive? Are you depending on
the
slave server(s) as your only form of backup?
If the slave devide acts as a perfect backup, why would I need an additional
3rd entiy for WAL backups?
Belt and suspenders mode:)
is, but I don't see the need
for a WAL archive in sync mode. Can you please explain that? Thanks
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> Datum: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 17:54:54 -0400
> Von: Michael Nolan
> An: hans wulf
> CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Betreff: Re: [GENERAL] 9.1.3 S
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:35 PM, hans wulf wrote:
> I am wondering how the catchup mode of a hot synchron slave server works
> on 9.1.3 if there is no WAL archive.
>
Why would you not want to maintain a WAL archive? Are you depending on the
slave server(s) as your only form of backup?
It isn't
On 04/05/2012 09:35 AM, hans wulf wrote:
> I am wondering how the catchup mode of a hot synchron slave server works on
> 9.1.3 if there is no WAL archive.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/warm-standby.html#STREAMING-REPLICATION
"Streaming replication allows a standby server to sta