On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 17:45 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 17:11 +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote:
>
> > Why not have a design where the slave is in control for it's own data ?
> > I mean the slave...
>
> The slave only exists because it is a copy of the master. If you try to
> "startup" a slave without first having taken a copy, how would you
> bootstrap the slave? With what? To what?
As I understand it, Csaba meant that slave would "bootstrap itself" by
connecting to master in some early phase of startup, requesting a
physical filesystem level copy of data, then commencing the startup in
Hot Standby mode.
If done that way, all the slave needs is a superuser level connection to
master database.
Of course this can also be done using little hot standby startup script
from slave, if shell access to master is provided,.
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Hannu