On 14/09/2013 04:31, Jov wrote: > T > he log shipping is useful when SR slave can not catch up the master and > hungry enough to cause replication stop work.For example,when you want > to stop the slave for a long time or do a large copy from,the > wal_keep_segments on master reached,SR slave may not catch up the > master.If log shipping is on,the slave will replay the WAL from > archives,when catch up,RS will start again. > > > Jov > blog: http:amutu.com/blog <http://amutu.com/blog> > > > 2013/9/14 Ray Stell <stellr@xxxxxx <mailto:stellr@xxxxxx>> > > > On Sep 13, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > > [1] and one of the wiki > > articles [2] seem to indicate that you need to set up log-shipping as > > well as SR, whereas one of the wiki articles [2] indicates that > > log-shipping isn't required. I've followed [3] and it seems to > work fine > > in initial trials; but I'm wondering if I'm missing something, or if I > > misunderstood [1] + [2] in the first place. > > > > Streaming replication works fine without log shipping. The logs are > a good idea > in case a pitr becomes required. I don't know why one would ever > not write the > archives, but I have done so. I think it was some silly, temporary > disk space issue > I had to work around. Thanks to you both for your responses - that clears it up for me. Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@xxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general