Re: Why we lost Uber as a user

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org>, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why we lost Uber as a user
Date: 2016-08-03 19:15:54
Message-ID: 14878.1470251754@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On 08/03/2016 11:23 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think the realistic answer if you suffer replication-induced corruption
>> is usually going to be "re-clone that slave", and logical rep doesn't
>> really offer much gain in that.

> Yes, it actually does. The ability to unsubscribe a set of tables,
> truncate them and then resubscribe them is vastly superior to having to
> take a base backup.

True, *if* you can circumscribe the corruption to a relatively small
part of your database, logical rep might provide more support for a
partial re-clone.

regards, tom lane

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