Re: Re: how to switch old replication Master to new Standby after promoting old Standby

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John Lumby <johnlumby(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: how to switch old replication Master to new Standby after promoting old Standby
Date: 2016-03-14 22:46:28
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQ0ByqfhdRw9Umo=FyXeXQ34GPu0FcSLOvvoYB+NLCa2Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:08 PM, John Lumby <johnlumby(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> And indeed in its debug I found
> received chunk for file "postgresql.conf", offset 0, size 16482
> received chunk for file "postgresql.conf.20160314114055", offset 0, size 16464
>
> And I now see in its description in the Doc that it intends to do this.
> But why would it do that?

To make its code more simple. This way there is no need to apply any
kind of file-based filters to decide if some files should be copied or
not, and it is not that much a big deal to copy the configuration
files of the target node before performing the rewind.

> Maybe a note about it should be added to the wiki
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication
> (not sure if I can)

With a community account you could edit this page.
--
Michael

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