Re: Understanding streaming replication

From: "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "Pawel Veselov *EXTERN*" <pawel(dot)veselov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Understanding streaming replication
Date: 2012-11-13 08:43:23
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Pawel Veselov wrote:
>> From your later comments, it's also apparent that these archived WALs will be useless after
>> failover (for the purpose of recovery), so there is no reason to send them to all the nodes after all.
>
> I obviously lost it here. The archives do need to be synchronized, for the purpose of recovering
> slaves. If a slave dies, and I want to recover it, it may need the archived WALs, and for this, the
> archives should be available on the node. So, rsync (or something like that) is necessary. But it's a
> bad idea to run the rsync from the archive command itself.

Right, that's exactly what I tried to say.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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