Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> writes:
> The procedure should be something similar to the one available today if
> you do it manually. The main difference would be that the standby
> postmaster should connect to the primary server, and get all table data
> and WAL record stream through normal data base connections...
This is pie-in-the-sky really. A design like that would mean that the
master could *never* recycle WAL files, because it could never know when
some slave would pop up demanding a copy of ancient history.
regards, tom lane