Re: Using old master as new replica after clean switchover

Is there any link where the required setup and the step by step procedure
for performing the controlled switchover are listed?

Thanks
Raj

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:44 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 04:27:02PM -0800, RSR999GMAILCOM wrote:
> > So wanted to clarify if this procedure really requires the WAL archive
> > location on a shared storage ?
>
> Shared storage for WAL archives is not a requirement. It is perfectly
> possible to use streaming replication to get correct WAL changes.
> Using an archive is recommended for some deployments and depending on
> your requirements and data retention policy, still you could have
> those archives on a different host and have the restore_command of the
> standbyt in recovery or the archive_command of the primary save the
> segments to it. Depending on the frequency new WAL segments are
> generated, this depends of course.
> --
> Michael
>