On 2014-04-04 21:42:33 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > The new master won't necessarily have all the neccessary WAL available, no?
> No, they won't have it, and things begin to get bad once a base backup > includes a slot that has a non-null value of restart_lsn. In other words, every slot that has been used. > I imagine > that if we want to guarantee the correctness of a replication slot we > would need to fetch from archives the necessary WAL files needed for > it when a node is in recovery, which is not something that this patch > does... Does that mean you "retract" the patch? Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers