On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Bocap <kakalot4_9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1. Instead of using pg_basebackup for standby DB, i initdb for both standby > and primary. > 2. Create recovery.conf in standby DB, and start both nodes. > Now it work fine for me, but is it sure that no problem? A standby node *needs* to be based on a base backup of its primary or the node it connects to (it can be as well a slave in a cascading configuration). One of the reasons being that they need to share the same system identifier (Database system identifier output in pg_controldata). Using initdb on multiple nodes to set up a cluster will simply not satisfy this condition, and your cluster setup will fail. More details here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/continuous-archiving.html -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin