Re: Wal archiving and streaming replication

On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 4:14:15 am Ray Stell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:01:10AM -0700, alexondi wrote:
> > Hi!
> > Do I need setup wal archiving (archiving_mode = on) setup when I  use
> > streaming replication?
>
> yes
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/high-availability.html

Actually no. Streaming will work without archiving. For a quick introduction
see:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Binary_Replication_Tutorial#5_Minutes_to_Simple_Replication
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Adrian Klaver
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