Re: pgbasebackup necessary for master slave change?

pg_rewind cannot be used as I am on 9.4.

Anything else?

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Achilleas Mantzios
<achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> wrote:
> On 08/12/2016 11:33, Subhankar Chattopadhyay wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Few days back I had asked if it is needed to to pg_basebackup for
>> every database update. From John I understood that it is unnecessary
>> and if the slave is syncing, even if it is catching up, it would be
>> able to sync without doing pg_basebackup. This is working also for me.
>>
>> However, for a failover scenario, where a master goes down, and I make
>> the slave as master, and then when the old master comes back as a
>> slave again, if I don't take pg_basebackup from the new master, it
>> cannot follow the new master. This is kind of an overhead. Is there a
>> way I can make the old master follow the new master without having to
>> do full backup?
>
> pg_rewind
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Subhankar Chattopadhyay
>> Bangalore, India
>>
>>
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