Re: Demoting master to slave without an rsync...is it safe?

Chris Redekop wrote:
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> I have two questions:
> (1) Did you set recovery_target_timeline='latest' in both master
> and slave?
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> Yes....but it's in recovery.conf so it only really applies to
> whichever server is currently the slave...
>
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> (2) Did you make any changes after promote the slave to be master?
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> Yes, some....however I'm not sure I've done enough changes to have the
> slave rotate+archive an xlog before bringing the old master back up as
> a slave....I would assume that wouldn't make a difference but it's
> something to test I guess....
Did you set trigger_file in recovery? That is the required step to
switch slave to master. I set my log rotate+archive to 15 minutes.
When I touch fail over file, it mostly like force it to rotate+archive.

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