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Re: Backup history file should be replicated in Streaming Replication?

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

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From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-12-22T19:15:11Z
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> It's needed to find the place where the backup stopped, so it defines
> the safe stopping point. We could easily pass that info via WAL, when
> streaming. It doesn't actually matter until we try to failover.

Right. And, it's also needed to cooperate with HS which begins accepting
read-only queries after a recovery reaches that safe stopping point.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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