Re: Mirroring with WAL?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Giles Constant <gilesc(at)hyperlink-interactive(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Mirroring with WAL?
Date: 2001-10-17 20:35:34
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0110172012300.628-100000@peter.localdomain
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Giles Constant writes:

> I've seen a lot of traffic around the developer lists about performing
> live backups by duplicating the WAL control files, but no examples of this
> actually working.

That's because it doesn't work. There are no plans to make WAL into a
replication facility, for reasons which were discussed on the developer
lists as well.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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