Re: WAL history files - Pgsql 9.2

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Patrick B <patrickbakerbr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Venkata B Nagothi <nag1010(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WAL history files - Pgsql 9.2
Date: 2016-12-12 03:08:04
Message-ID: CAB7nPqRW2L_PoGWfK5gDK_QDhPjm53n7AYjX0=RnOLUGcbv4aA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Patrick B <patrickbakerbr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> No.. it didn't copy. i tested here. I had to manually copy the history file
> from /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data/pg_xlogs from the new master to the same
> directory on the slaves.

An archive command is able to properly fetch the history files to
define a new timeline. If you rely only on streaming replication, only
9.3 and newer versions are able to do that: the replication protocol
has been extended at this point to allow a standby to fetch from a
primary history files.
--
Michael

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