* Philippe Ferreira (phil.f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > But, I'm wondering what could be the behaviour of Postgresql if you > shutdown the > service while a new WAL archive is just ready to be copied, or if the > transfer is in > progress... > Will the tranfer be canceled (until the next start), or will Postgresql > wait for the end > of the transfer before exiting ? I'd expect the transfer to continue because it's a seperate spawned program... I don't think it'd get a signal or be killed when the parent shuts down but I'm not entirely sure. > In other words, when I want to switchover, is it sufficient to stop > postgresql, > and rsync the last partial WAL (the last modified one), or do I have to > check if > every WAL file is in sync before starting the other server ?? I think you need to rsync across all of the WALs which aren't yet archived. That could be more than 1... That's my understanding anyway. Thanks, Stephen
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