Re: How to stop Streaming Replication in slave for backup

Well...

In my personal experience, I have a multi GB customer database. During the PG dump, when the source (master) database is modified,

my pg_dump fails.

Pausing replication resolves that problem.

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From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org <pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org> on behalf of Suresh Rajagopal <sureshr7(at)gmail(dot)com>
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 12:59 PM
To: John Scalia
Cc: Pgsql-admin
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How to stop Streaming Replication in slave for backup

Thanks John.

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From: John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Suresh Rajagopal <sureshr7(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How to stop Streaming Replication in slave for backup

You really shouldn't need to stop replication in order to run pg_dump on a 9.3 database,

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Suresh Rajagopal <sureshr7(at)gmail(dot)com<mailto:sureshr7(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
Hi,

What is the best approach for stopping streaming replication on 9.3 slave for running pg_dump ?

Thanks
Suresh

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