Andy,
FWIW, I /think/ the replication scheme you are trying to carry out is
implemented in Command Prompt's "Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator" product. From
what I understand, their system will independently copy over and replay
"TransactionLog" files (translate: WAL files?) on your slave databases in a
continuous stream or in a batch. They describe a few other features in their
product that might make the commercial option worthwhile to try.
CG
--- Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Andy Shellam wrote:
>
> > However, if I delete my PG data directory, restore the same base backup
> from
> > yesterday, and begin recovery, it recovers right up until the last log
> file,
> > which the previous roll-forward attempt fails.
> > The log files were fully archived off the live server to begin with so I
> > can't see it's that they've changed or anything.
> >
> > Is this scenario possible - that you can keep rolling forward over log
> files
> > as long as necessary, or do you always have to start from a base backup?
> > Nothing is changing on the spare, it's literally a sitting duck.
>
> You must always start with a base backup when you begin the restore otherwise
>
> the system does not know where to begin the recovery. What I have done in
> the
> past on a similar system is keep the secondary DB shutdown and make base
> backups as often as possible so the recovery time is suitably short when the
> secondary is needed. Also a good idea to do test recovers on occassion to
> make sure you don't have any corrupt WAL files. If you use rsync, then you
> can make the base backup pretty quickly depending on how much of your DB
> changes.
>
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