Re: 9.4 recommendations for archive_command vs. replication slots

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 9.4 recommendations for archive_command vs. replication slots
Date: 2014-11-04 18:20:49
Message-ID: 54591901.4080808@gmx.net
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On 10/29/14 6:47 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 10/20/2014 11:04 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The 9.4 documentation for streaming replication still starts out by
>> making you set up archive_command and restore_command. Isn't that
>> obsolete now with replication slots? Shouldn't the first step be to set
>> up replication slots and then go from there?
>
> Well, bluntly, our replication docs should be taken out behind the barn
> with an axe. They tell you more about the development history of
> PostgreSQL than they tell you about how to replicate.

That's true, but can we come to a consensus of what the preferred
advertised method should be?

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