Re: Replication broken. Stale data in slave Database

From: John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alberto Olivares <alberto(dot)olivares(at)snowflakesoftware(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Replication broken. Stale data in slave Database
Date: 2015-06-24 14:52:50
Message-ID: CABzCKRCM+mFFPmWrEN0bv=atOHdMO9mVikTEu-4PZyPBcO9xRQ@mail.gmail.com
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Alberto,

I assume you synchronous streaming replication, but have you looked at
asynchronous replication just using WAL files? You could have your standby
server lag behind by a fixed amount and maybe then you wouldn't have to
delete on failover. Without more details, that's the best I can offer.
--
Jay

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Alberto Olivares <
alberto(dot)olivares(at)snowflakesoftware(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have set up a Streaming replication.
>
> Master database serves temporal data being replicated on the Slave
> database.
>
> In the event that we shut down the Master database, the slave database
> contains residual data that we do not need.
>
> Is there any way to trigger a SQL to delete all data from the slave
> database in the event that the replication is broken?
>
> Thank you for your answers.
>
> Regards,
> Alberto.
>
>
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