On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:14 AM, chinnaobi <chinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Recently I was writing an application to implement automated failover with > env: Two 2008 R2 servers, Network area storage, asynchronous replication, > WAL archive on primary enabled. > > Is there any way to avoid starting standby server always from base backup in > automated failover. I see the database is growing huge. I can't keep doing > base backup every day. > > Please suggest solution
The usual solution is to configure the standby as a warm or hot standby, so that logs are continuously replayed there. Then if the master dies, you only have to wait for replication to catch up before promoting. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
