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Re: Multiple Slave Failover with PITR

Sergey Konoplev <gray.ru@gmail.com>

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From: Sergey Konoplev <gray.ru@gmail.com>
To: Ken Brush <kbrush@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-04-11T16:50:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Ken Brush <kbrush@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 8. Copy the history file from the new master to the slave (it's the
>>>> most recent #.history file in the xlog directory)
>>
>> It will work in the case of archive_command presence only and I will
>> need to sync the whole pg_xlog content if do not have archive_command
>> in recovery.conf, correct?
>
> The new master will sync out the WAL logs from pg_xlog that the slaves
> need. The wal sender/receiver system is what I rely on for this.

So you do not have archive_command in recovery.conf, do you?

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