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Thanks for the answer.

I see the point with the backup :)

Regards
Thomas

Scot Kreienkamp, 02.02.2009 16:19:
Probably can.  But you're talking about disabling off-host archiving.
The whole point behind this is prevention in case a host hard drive
fails... if it fails and you don't use off-host archiving then you've
lost the files you need to rebuild the database along with the original
database.

Thanks,
Scot Kreienkamp
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Subject:  Warm Standby question

Hi,

(Note: I have never used log shipping before, I'm just interested in the

concepts, so I'm might be missing a very important aspect)

I was reading the blog entry about HA and warm standby:
http://scale-out-blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/simple-ha-with-postgresql-poi
nt-in-time.html

The image that explained how log shipping works, strikes me as being a
bit too complex.
<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_26KnjtB2MFo/SYVDrEr1HXI/AAAAAAAAAEY/ncq_AW-Vv
-w/s1600-h/pg_warm_standby.png>

According to the picture it basically works like this:

Master -> Copy master archive directory -> Copy to standby archive dir
-> copy to pg_xlogs.

When I look at this chain I'm asking myself, why do I need the two
archive directories?

Why can't the master copy the files directly into the pg_xlogs directory
of the standby server?

Thanks
Thomas





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