Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes:
>> Yes. Just like with pg_standby.
>
> Hehe, I'm using walmgr.py from skytools instead, and this discussion
> makes me think I'll continue doing so even if using SR, as they are
> complementary solutions.
>
> In SR mode, the master continues to archive as usual, and the slave will
> either take the WAL on a per-file basis from the restore_command or on
> an per-LSN basis from the walreceiver and a live connection to the
> master, right?
Right.
> Does it mean any working wal shipping setup (pitrtools, walmgr.py) will
> continue working unchanged, or should we begin testing those and
> scheduling adaptations to 9.0?
They will continue to work as is, just leave standby_mode=off. But if
you want to take advantage streaming replication, you'll have to switch
it to 'on', and adapt the scripts to work with that.
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