Re: Can WAL files be shipped to multiple servers?

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Steeles <steeles(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can WAL files be shipped to multiple servers?
Date: 2010-07-23 16:56:37
Message-ID: 4C49C9C5.1090400@gmail.com
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On 07/23/2010 09:31 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 18:29, Steeles<steeles(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I am working on shipping WAL files, can WAL files do one-to-many shipping?
>> The target PG instances are running in the recovery mode waiting for the WAL
>> files.
>
> Yes. Just copy the files to multiple machines, the slaves are
> completely independent.
>
>
>> also, once the target PG database receives WAL files and update its own
>> database, can I run pg_dump to dump all the data when it is in recovery
>> mode?
>
> No.
>
>

Just curious does this restriction also apply to Hot Standby in 9.0?

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Adrian Klaver
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