| From: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Turn off streaming replication - leaving Master running |
| Date: | 2015-06-30 02:37:36 |
| Message-ID: | 559200F0.4080802@2ndquadrant.com |
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Hi,
On 06/29/2015 09:27 AM, Andy Erskine wrote:
> Thanks Jeff,
>
> I don't want a clone - i want to temporaily turn off replication
> (and therefore failover) and load a different db into the secondary
> which is now writable and run some tests. Then i will remove this db
> and run a basebackup to reinstate a copy of the master and turn on
> replication again.
So you want replica and you don't want replica at the same time?
Is there any reason why you simply don't want to either create a new
snapshot using pg_basebackup, or just simply shut down the standby,
create a copy of the data directory, remove the recovery conf and start
it again as a standalone database?
regards
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Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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