On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 10:35:37AM -0700, Curt Kolovson wrote: > When trying to resync an old primary to become a new standby, I have found > that pg_rewind only works occasionally. How reliable/robust is pg_rewind, > and what are its limitations? We have observed that approx half our FPIs in > the WALs are due to XLOG/FPI_FOR_HINT. The only reason we've set > wal_log_hints=on is so that we can use pg_rewind. But if pg_rewind is > unreliable, we would rather turn off wal_log_hints. Any info on the > reliability of pg_rewind and its limitations would be appreciated.
FWIW, we use it in production to accelerate the redeployment of standbys in HA configuration for 4 years now in at least one product, and it is present in upstream for since 9.5, for 5 years now. So the tool is rather baked at this stage of the game. -- Michael
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