Re: recovery.conf

Thanks a lot for fast responce.

Do you have any idea of why PostgreSQL don't use cluster like normally used
e.g
One common disk for both master and nodes?

Thanks.

Poul

2016-09-05 14:24 GMT+02:00 Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>:

> Poul Kristensen wrote:
> > It is not obvious to me what is the minimum configuration of the
> recovery.conf?
> >
> > The online manuals does not give the exact minumum.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
>
> None of the settings in recovery.conf must be specified.
>
> One that you will almost always have for recovery is "restore_command",
> but if all
> the WAL you need is in pg_xlog, you don't have to specify that either.
> And you don't need it for streaming replication.
>
> Some settings are necessary for point-in-time-recovery, and some
> for streaming replication, which are two different use cases for the same
> recovery mechanism.
> Maybe that's what's confusing you.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>

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Poul Kristensen
Linux-OS/Virtualizationexpert and Oracle DBA