Re: Backup history file should be replicated in Streaming Replication?

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Backup history file should be replicated in Streaming Replication?
Date: 2009-11-26 08:02:24
Message-ID: 3f0b79eb0911260002n85a548coa5fd3fc6668d67f9@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> In current SR, since a backup history file is not replicated,
>> the standby always starts an archive recovery without a backup
>> history file, and a wrong minRecoveryPoint might be used. This
>> is not a problem for SR itself, but would cause trouble when
>> SR cooperates with Hot Standby.
>
> But the backup history file is included in the base backup you start
> replication from, right?

No. A backup history file is created by pg_stop_backup().
So it's not included in the base backup.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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