Scott Briggs wrote: > So if you do need to use wal files to catch up a slave, what would > that process be? If you caught up with wal files, how would streaming > replication know what positon to start at? And how would you tell > streaming replication the new position after catching up with wal > files? See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/warm-standby.html#STANDBY-SERV ER-OPERATION, particularly the second paragraph. WAL records are ordered, so the standby can request the correct WAL record when it connects to the primary. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general