On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:08 PM, John Lumby <johnlumby@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And indeed in its debug I found > received chunk for file "postgresql.conf", offset 0, size 16482 > received chunk for file "postgresql.conf.20160314114055", offset 0, size 16464 > > And I now see in its description in the Doc that it intends to do this. > But why would it do that? To make its code more simple. This way there is no need to apply any kind of file-based filters to decide if some files should be copied or not, and it is not that much a big deal to copy the configuration files of the target node before performing the rewind. > Maybe a note about it should be added to the wiki > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication > (not sure if I can) With a community account you could edit this page. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general