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Re: Cascading replication and recovery_target_timeline='latest'

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-09-05T17:08:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 05.09.2012 07:55, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas<hlinnaka@iki.fi>  writes:
>> I was worried about that too at first, but Fujii pointed out that's OK: see
>> last paragraph at
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-08/msg01203.php.
>
> Mmm, ok.
>
> I'm worried about master-standby-standby setup where the master
> disappear, we promote a standby and the second standby now feeds from
> the newly promoted standby.  Well we have to reconnect manually in this
> case, but don't we need some similar stopgaps?

The second standby will have to reconnect, but it will happen automatically.

- Heikki