On 09/07/11 2:43 PM, Chris Redekop wrote:
> my original question was: is it safe to bring a former master back up
> as a slave without doing a base-backup first? (using
> recovery_target_timeline='latest')
>
no. you must first sync the new slave's files from the current master.
if you can do this with rsync odds are most of the old files on the
master won't need copying. of course, this sync must be bracketed with
the same pg_start_backup() and pg_end_backup() as when the original
slave was created.
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