On 6/10/12 11:47 AM, Joshua Berkus wrote: > So currently we have a major limitation in binary replication, where it is > not possible to "remaster" your system (that is, designate the most caught-up > standby as the new master) based on streaming replication only. This is a > major limitation because the requirement to copy physical logs over scp (or > similar methods), manage and expire them more than doubles the administrative > overhead of managing replication. This becomes even more of a problem if > you're doing cascading replication. > > Therefore I think this is a high priority for 9.3. > > As far as I can tell, the change required for remastering over streaming is > relatively small; we just need to add a new record type to the streaming > protocol, and then start writing the timeline change to that. Are there > other steps required which I'm not seeing?
*sound of crickets chirping* Is there other work involved which isn't immediately apparent? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
