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Re: Teaching pg_receivexlog to follow timeline switches

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Phil Sorber <phil@omniti.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-01-22T13:02:53Z
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Phil Sorber <phil@omniti.com> writes:
> What do you think about the idea of a full WAL proxy? Probably not for
> 9.3 at this point though.

I was thinking that a WAL proxy nowadays is called a cascading standby
with local archiving enabled. I'm not sure why you would want to trust
your archiving and WAL relaying to another piece of software…

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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