Re: Using RSYNC for replication?

>From the manual:

http://www.au.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/wal.html

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Gearon [mailto:gearond(at)cvc(dot)net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2003 12:32 AM
> To: Jason Hihn; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org; Christopher Kings-Lynne
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Using RSYNC for replication?
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> What's WAL?
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> 1/27/2003 10:05:22 PM, "Christopher Kings-Lynne"
> <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
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> >I don't know abou the 'safe' in that list there. You will
> definitely need
> >to stop both postmasters from running while you are rsyncing and
> then start
> >them again afterwards, since memory contents will be different.
> You would
> >also need to rsync all the WAL files, the pg_controldata file, the
> >architecture must be identical, etc.
> >
> >
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