On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 02/19/2014 11:15 PM, Neil Thombre wrote:
>
>> And that is where I have a question. I noticed that in pg_standby.c when
>> we
>> detect the word "fast" in the trigger file we truncate the file.
I was trying to understand (and then perhaps mimic) how pg_standby does a
fast failover.
My current understanding is that when a secondary db is in standby mode, it
will exhaust all the archive log to be replayed from the primary and then
start streaming. It is at this point that xlog.c checks fo
