someone wrote:
>>> Can I shutdown Server B (backup/recovery postmaster) simply by
>>> killing the postmaster and restart it back in recovery mode to
>>> continue re-syncing where it left off? Or does stopping Server B
>>> while in recovery mode require any manual re-sync steps before it can
>>> resume recovery?
>>
>> I think you'll need to redo the whole process : restore the full data
>> backup, create the recovery.conf file, etc.
No, you don't. The server can continue replaying files.
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