Re: Warm standby questions

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:17 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote:

> Q2.  If I stop and restart backup server B while master server A continues
> to run, will B continue eating WALs from where it left off?  Or do we need
> another full backup?  (We'll assume WAL shipping continues successfully during
> the time B is down: I'm only stopping/restarting PostgreSQL, not the entire
> machine.)

Recovery is restartable. Not quite from where it left off, but near
enough that it won't take too long to get back to where it left off.

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