Re: Streaming replication, retrying from archive

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

To: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>

Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-01-14T16:43:51Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Dimitri Fontaine
<dfontaine@hi-media.com> wrote:
> Did I mention my viewpoint on that already?
>  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/msg00943.php

>  0. base: slave asks the master for a base-backup, at the end of this it
>     reaches the base-lsn

What if the WAL file including the archive recovery starting location has
been removed from the primary's pg_xlog before the end of online-backup
(i.e., the procedure 0)? Where should the standby get such a WAL file from?
How?

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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