On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Alexander Perepelica <alexondi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can I change server mode master to slave (standby) without restarting? Which replication tool do you use? If streaming replication, the answer is "No". You need to shutdown the master, make a fresh base backup from new master, create recovery.conf and start the server as the standby from the backup. I have no idea about other replication method. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general