Hi, On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 14:22 -0700, Steve Crawford wrote: > "...it is likely that running different minor release levels on > primary > and standby servers will work successfully. However, no formal > support > for that is offered and you are advised to keep primary and standby > servers at the same release level as much as possible. When updating > to > a new minor release, the safest policy is to update the standby > servers > first — a new minor release is more likely to be able to read WAL > files > from a previous minor release than vice versa." > > My mental translation of this is "...try updating the standby first > and hope it works - if not and you at some point find your standby is > scrod, you're on your own...we warned you..." I would translate it as: "Newer minor releases will be compatible with the previous versions, so receving xlogs from older releases will be supported. Upgrade standby first, and then the master server" Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
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