Re: Streaming replication, and walsender during recovery

Simon Riggs wrote:
> I'm a little worried the feature set of streaming rep isn't any better
> than what we have already.

Huh? Are you thinking of the "Record-based Log Shipping" described in
the manual, using a program to poll pg_xlogfile_name_offset() in a tight
loop, as a replacement for streaming replication? First of all, that
requires a big chunk of custom development, so it's a bit of a stretch
to say we have it already. Secondly, with that method, the standby still
 still be replaying the WAL one file at a time, which makes a difference
with Hot Standby.

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