Re: Dividing progress/debug information in pg_standby, and stat before copy

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Dividing progress/debug information in pg_standby, and stat before copy
Date: 2010-01-26 14:40:00
Message-ID: 25762.1264516800@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> *That* makes pg_standby obsolete, not streaming replication per se.
>> Setting standby_mode=on, with a valid restore_command using e.g 'cp' and
>> no connection info for walreceiver is more or less the same as using
>> pg_standby.

> I've yet to understand how the files in the archive get from the master
> to the slave in this case, or are you supposing in your example that the
> cp in the restore_command is targetting a shared disk setup or
> something?

pg_standby didn't address that detail, either.

regards, tom lane

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