February 3rd, 2012 by depesz | Tags: omnipitr, pg92, pg_basebackup, pitr, postgresql, replication, slave, wal | No comments »
On 25th of January, Simon Riggs committed patch: Allow pg_basebackup from standby node with safety checking. Base backup follows recommended procedure, plus goes to great lengths to ensure that partial page writes are avoided. Jun Ishizuka and Fujii Masao, with minor modifications
July 26th, 2011 by depesz | Tags: cascade, pg92, pitr, postgresql, replication, slave, streaming, wal | 1 comment »
On 19th of July, Simon Riggs committed patch: Cascading replication feature for streaming log-based replication. Standby servers can now have WALSender processes, which can work with either WALReceiver or archive_commands to pass data. Fully updated docs, including new conceptual terms of sending server, upstream ...
August 18th, 2010 by depesz | Tags: backup, omnipitr, pitr, postgresql, replication, slave, wal | 7 comments »
Well, the biggest information is that hot-backups on slave work. And they work fine. Really fine. Some more information (with nice graph!):
