Re: 9.4 recommendations for archive_command vs. replication slots

On 10/29/14 6:47 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 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.

That's true, but can we come to a consensus of what the preferred
advertised method should be?