Re: Warm-standby robustness question

Kevin Grittner wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:55 PM, in message <3149(dot)1198004157(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > "David F. Skoll" <dfs(at)roaringpenguin(dot)com> writes:
> >> My question is this: If the master database is fairly busy, gets
> >> VACUUMed once a day, etc. can we expect the warm standby server
> >> to work correctly after days/weeks/months/years of log shipping,
> >> or should we periodically take new base backups?
> >
> > I don't think the time period is at issue. Log-shipping should keep the
> > slave a perfect replica of the master (if it doesn't, we have problems
> > anyway).
>
> Except for hint bits. This becomes more of a post-recovery
> performance issue as the base backup ages, since they are included
> in base backups, but not in WAL files.

But hint bits should be replicated on the next full-page-write anyhow,
no?

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