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

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-12-22T19:17:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 04:15 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, hence my interest!

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 Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com