Re: Barman and Hot Standby

On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 10:24:20PM +0000, Capobianco, Tony wrote:

Hi,

in my understanding of your question streaming replication

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/high-availability.html

with Hot Standby:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/hot-standby.html

is the way to go.

Replication is a quite different task than to archive WAL files,
what you have accomplished already with archive_command

cheers

Norbert Poellmann

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> I have barman successfully running and performing scheduled backups.
>
> psql -d db -p 1234 -c "show archive_command"
> archive_command
> --------------------------------------------------------
> barman-wal-archive 10.11.12.13 cluster_name %p
>
>
> psql -d db -p 1234 -c "show wal_level"
>
> wal_level
>
> -----------
>
> replica
>
>
> How can I add hot standby functionality to my environment if the archive_command is already defined with barman-wal-archive?
>
> Thanks.
> Tony