On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Subhankar Chattopadhyay < subho....@gmail.com> wrote:
> pg_rewind cannot be used as I am on 9.4. > > Anything else? > Upgrade to 9.5 or 9.6? ;-) This is a known limitation in Postgres that pg_rewind was written to address. > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Achilleas Mantzios > <ach...@matrix.gatewaynet.com> wrote: > > On 08/12/2016 11:33, Subhankar Chattopadhyay wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Few days back I had asked if it is needed to to pg_basebackup for > >> every database update. From John I understood that it is unnecessary > >> and if the slave is syncing, even if it is catching up, it would be > >> able to sync without doing pg_basebackup. This is working also for me. > >> > >> However, for a failover scenario, where a master goes down, and I make > >> the slave as master, and then when the old master comes back as a > >> slave again, if I don't take pg_basebackup from the new master, it > >> cannot follow the new master. This is kind of an overhead. Is there a > >> way I can make the old master follow the new master without having to > >> do full backup? > > > > pg_rewind > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Subhankar Chattopadhyay > >> Bangalore, India > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Achilleas Mantzios > > IT DEV Lead > > IT DEPT > > Dynacom Tankers Mgmt > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > > To make changes to your subscription: > > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > > > > -- > > > > > Subhankar Chattopadhyay > Bangalore, India > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Best Wishes, Chris Travers Efficito: Hosted Accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in. http://www.efficito.com/learn_more
