Re: Strange issues with 9.2 pg_basebackup & replication

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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

Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>

Date: 2012-05-18T17:44:41Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Fujii,
> 
> You mean that "remaster" is, after promoting one of standby servers,
> to make
> remaining standby servers reconnect to new master and resolve the
> timeline
> gap without the shared archive? Yep, that's one of my TODO items, but
> I'm not
> sure if I have enough time to implement that for 9.3....

Well, not remastering from stream is the single largest usability obstacle for streaming replication, and severely limits the utility of cascading replication.  Is there any way you could get it done for 9.3?  I'm happy to spend lots of time testing it, if necessary.

--Josh Berkus