Re: Streaming replication in docs

From: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming replication in docs
Date: 2010-02-09 10:22:50
Message-ID: bddc86151002090222j7694f536u65ca0ece32af6023@mail.gmail.com
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On 9 February 2010 01:57, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> Yeah, as you noticed, the documentation for streaming replication is
>> currently non-existent. That obviously needs to be fixed. I think we
>> need to move the existing sections around, and of course add a lot of
>> documentation for the new streaming replication and hot standby specific
>> stuff. I proposed a new layout here:
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4B50A600.3090309@enterprisedb.com
>
> The attached patch changes the layout according to your suggestion
> (but with a small modification). Here is the new layout:
>
> -------------------------------
> Chapter 24. Backup and Restore
> 24.1. SQL Dump
>    24.1.1. Restoring the dump
>    24.1.2. Using pg_dumpall
>    24.1.3. Handling large databases
> 24.2. File System Level Backup
> 24.3. Continuous Archiving and Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
>    24.3.1. Setting up WAL archiving
>    24.3.2. Making a Base Backup
>    24.3.3. Recovering using a Continuous Archive Backup
>    24.3.4. Timelines
>    24.3.5. Tips and Examples
>    24.3.6. Caveats
> 24.4. Migration Between Releases
>
> Chapter 25. High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication
> 25.1. Comparison of different solutions
> 25.2. File-based Log Shipping
>    25.2.1. Planning
>    25.2.2. Implementation
>    25.2.3. Record-based Log Shipping
> 25.3. Streaming Replication
>    25.3.1. Setup
>    25.3.2. Authentication
> 25.4. Failover
> 25.5. Hot Standby
>    25.5.1. User's Overview
>    25.5.2. Handling query conflicts
>    25.5.3. Administrator's Overview
>    25.5.4. Hot Standby Parameter Reference
>    25.5.5. Caveats
> 25.6. Incrementally Updated Backups
> -------------------------------
>
> I didn't change the content except adjusting the "sect" and
> the "indexterm" tags to new chapter.
>
> If this layout change will have been committed, I'll improve
> the SR section.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Fujii Masao
> NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
> NTT Open Source Software Center
>

And can I just correct a couple typo's while we're changing it too? (attached)

Thanks

Thom

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