On 09/07/11 2:43 PM, Chris Redekop wrote:
my original question was: is it safe to bring a former master back up as a slave without doing a base-backup first? (using recovery_target_timeline='latest')
no. you must first sync the new slave's files from the current master. if you can do this with rsync odds are most of the old files on the master won't need copying. of course, this sync must be bracketed with the same pg_start_backup() and pg_end_backup() as when the original slave was created.
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