Re: 9.4 recommendations for archive_command vs. replication slots

On 10/20/2014 11:04 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The 9.4 documentation for streaming replication still starts out by
> making you set up archive_command and restore_command.  Isn't that
> obsolete now with replication slots?  Shouldn't the first step be to set
> up replication slots and then go from there?

Well, bluntly, our replication docs should be taken out behind the barn
with an axe.  They tell you more about the development history of
PostgreSQL than they tell you about how to replicate.

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