Re: Turn off streaming replication - leaving Master running

no snapshot available .. i don't mind running basebackup once i've finished
my test.

So if someone could help with the steps to turn off replication and bring
secondary up as a standalone db that would be great
thanks.

On 29 June 2015 at 15:58, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

> On 6/28/2015 10:52 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>
>> Well, yes. It depends on what you want to do then. If this testing
>> really requires to promote the standby then you will need to take a
>> new fresh base backup knowing that you are using 9.2.
>>
>
> if the standby is running on a file system with snapshotting (like zfs),
> and the master is doing WAL archiving, you could, in theory, pause the
> replication and snapshot the slave, do read/write tests on the slave, then
> restore that snapshot and resume replication, pulling from the WAL archive
> til it catches up.
>
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