Re: Why there are no max_wal_receivers

On 10/07/2013 11:05 PM, 高健 wrote:
> Hello:
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> Thank you all for kindly replying my question.
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> I read the documentation about pg_basebackup.
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> The description says:
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> The server must also be configured with max_wal_senders set high enough
> to leave at least one session available for the backup.
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> Dose it mean:
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> If I am building a one master  -- one slave environment, I need the
> max_wal_sender to be at least 2.
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> But I think pg_basebackup just use the one sender process  temporarily,
> Is that right?

Well actually it will use at least one and up to two connections, see
-Xs option



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> Best Regards
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