| From: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, "<pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Assertion failure in walreceiver |
| Date: | 2010-02-25 08:04:05 |
| Message-ID: | 3f0b79eb1002250004h72a9535ck40943826dc449cf7@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> I have one question. Do we support starting an archive recovery and
>> standby server from a cold backup (not a base backup taken by online
>> backup)? Though I think they would work and be very useful, I'm not
>> sure they are safe.
>
> I don't see why not. We support that in PITR, streaming replication is
> just another way of getting the logs to the server.
I thought that because, AFAIK, there is no document about initial startup
of PITR from a cold backup. But I'd be happy if it's supported. After
failover happens, previous primary server might be able to become standby
from its old data without taking a new backup from new primary.
Regards,
--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
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