On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
> In my understanding pg_last_xlog_receive_location() returns NULL if
> applied to non standby server:
>
> Get last transaction log location received and synced to disk by
> streaming replication. While streaming replication is in progress this
> will increase monotonically. But when streaming replication is
> restarted this will back off to the replication starting position,
> typically the beginning of the WAL file containing the current replay
> location. If recovery has completed this will remain static at the
> value of the last WAL record received and synced to disk during
> recovery. If streaming replication is disabled, or if it has not yet
> started, the function returns NULL.
>
> However my primary server returns non NULL. Am I missing something?
In the primary server which was brought up from the standby,
pg_last_xlog_receive_location() returns non-NULL.
Regards,
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