On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:58:20 + Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 15:33 -0600, decibel wrote:
>
> > Dumb question: could the WAL streaming code be made to also ship base
> > files? That would make setting up a streaming replica super-simple.
>
> That was a possible design, but that'
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 15:33 -0600, decibel wrote:
> Dumb question: could the WAL streaming code be made to also ship base files?
> That would make setting up a streaming replica super-simple.
That was a possible design, but that's not will be there for this
release.
I opposed adding the "we do
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:33 AM, decibel wrote:
> Dumb question: could the WAL streaming code be made to also ship base files?
No.
> That would make setting up a streaming replica super-simple.
Agreed, but it's not easy to implement that. So I'm thinking
that it's out of the scope of the develo
On Dec 22, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> 9. Create a recovery command file in the standby server with parameters
> required for streaming replication.
>
> 7. (a) Make a base backup of minimal essential files from primary
> server, load this data onto the standby.
>
> 10. Start postgres
Some ideas to improve current behaviour of SR
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication
The current startup process is copied below. (7) gives some issues if it
is a very long step, notably that the master may fill with data and then
break off the connection before replication is full
