Can we bring the primary server up again? I found in the doc that "In master/slave mode with streaming replication, online recovery can be performed. Only a standby node can be recovered. You cannot recover the primary node. To recover the primary node, you have to stop all DB nodes and pgpool-II, and then restore it from a backup."
So, can't we restore the primary without making the standby (new primary) down? Thanks. ________________________________ From: Sandeep Thakkar <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, April 13, 2011 3:05:25 PM Subject: [Pgpool-general] failover done, now need help in online recovery Hi, Failover: I have one Master (PG9.0), one Standby (PG9.0) and one instance of pgpool-II (3.0.3) on the same box. I created a recovery.conf in the Standby and did all the other required settings in pgool.conf and postgresql.conf. To mimic the failover scenario, I killed the Master server, and found that failover process started successfully. Standby stops in recovering mode, and is promoted to primary (read-write). I could even execute write query on Standby (new Primary) now. Online recovery: To take it forward, I want to bring my old primary up and once up, it should behave as a Standby (read only). One step I know of is to execute the basebackup.sh on the new Primary, which will copy it's base directory to the old primary's data directory. Then what? I do not have the recovery.conf on the old primary yet. Do I need to keep it there? What else do I need to do? Thanks
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