Re: pg_basebackup or dump for starting replication process

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: PegoraroF10 <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_basebackup or dump for starting replication process
Date: 2018-04-06 06:24:56
Message-ID: 1522995896.2420.3.camel@cybertec.at
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PegoraroF10 wrote:
> For replication purposes only, there are any difference between pg_basebackup
> or dump to copy data from Master to Slave ?
> On Docs is written that pg_basebackup can be used both for point-in-time
> recovery and as the starting point for a log shipping or streaming
> replication standby servers.
>
> We are using just Dump, there are any caveat of using it for logical
> replication ?

For *logical* replication you can start with a "pg_dump --schema-only",
but for *physical* replication only a pg_basebackup will do.

Make sure that he tables are empty before you start logical replication.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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