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Re: Hot Standby remaining issues

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-12-02T18:20:30Z
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> Hmm, what happens if someone enables wal_standby_info in postgresql.conf
> while the server is shutdown. It would still be a valid starting point
> in that case.

Yeah, true.

> I'll just make a note, I think.

Yeah, a manual (or automatic, if you just wait) checkpoint will produce
a new checkpoint record showing that it's safe to start standby again.

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