On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Patrick B <patrickbakerbr@gmail.com> wrote:
> No.. it didn't copy. i tested here. I had to manually copy the history file
> from /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data/pg_xlogs from the new master to the same
> directory on the slaves.
An archive command is able to properly fetch the history files to
define a new timeline. If you rely only on streaming replication, only
9.3 and newer versions are able to do that: the replication protocol
has been extended at this point to allow a standby to fetch from a
primary history files.
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Michael