Re: Strategies for validating WAL-shipping replication

There is not such a possibility. However it's on TODO list:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo
I'm waiting for this feature too.

I can understand your fear about the data, that you can not query for
it. I had the same :)
So script as much as you can, for the rest create a formal procedure -
then repeat it few times and check if everything is correct. After
several tries you'll believe your data are safe. I've a good comfort
level with this.
You can also check & resetup your production from time to time.

On Oct 20, 8:31 am, fwei(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)bfk(dot)de (Florian Weimer) wrote:
> We've set up WAL-shipping replication on one of our database servers,
> and the question is whether it runs correctly.  Is there an easy way
> to access some tables and see if the data matches (possibly in
> single-user mode)?
>
> Stopping replication and starting the server for real on the replica
> means that we have to set up things from scratch, right?  (This is a
> bit annoying because of the amount of data which has to be copied from
> the master.)
>
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