> When do the standby launch its walreceiver? It would be extra-nice for > the base backup tool to optionally continue streaming WALs until the > standby starts doing it itself, so that wal_keep_segments is really > deprecated. No idea how feasible that is, though.
Good point. I have been always wondering why we can't use exiting WAL transporting infrastructure for sending/receiving WAL archive segments in streaming replication. If my memory serves, Fujii has already proposed such an idea but was rejected for some reason I don't understand. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
