Re: A streaming replica catching up

Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 10:16 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > After a streaming standby has been down for a time, I know of two
> > options for it to catch up with the master:
> >
> > 1. The replica can fetch all the necessary WAL records via the
> > replication protocol from the master (unless max_slot_wal_keep_size is
> > not the default -1, all the required WAL archives should be available from
> > the master).
> >
> > 2. The replica can be provided with a restore_command and will fetch
> > all WAL files from the WAL archive before starting streaming WAL from
> > the master.
> >
> > Which is the preferred way?
> >
> > Of course if max_slot_wal_keep_size is limited, the second options seems
> > the only safe one.
> >
> > OTOH, if the master does not write to a WAL archive, only the first
> > option is left to us.
>
> Both methods are equally feasible. Which one you choose depends on
> your situation, just as you describe in the last two sentences.

I see.

It is also interesting when there is Patroni involved, would it be a good
idea to provide Patroni nodes with a restore_command? I'm afraid it can
interfere with Patroni failover/switchover operations.

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