Re: time-delayed standbys

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-29T07:46:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:

> Or, we should
> implement new "promote" mode which finishes a recovery as soon as
> "promote" is requested (i.e., not replay all the available WAL records)?

That's not a new feature. We had it in 8.4, but it was removed.

Originally, we supported "fast" failover via trigger file.

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