> This basically archives the data in the primary server itself...right!!! > But how can I set up continuous archiving from primary to a directory > (WAL archive directory) on the stand-by server ?
I tried this example I have the primary and standby server setup. The primary server is archiving the wal segments in the standby server's directory. My question is that, as per that example in step 15 the standby server should gives messages in its log whenever some WAL activity is triggered in the master. I see the archive directory in standby server getting filled up, but there are no log messages generated. Whay? What am I missing here?
Also what does step 16 mean in that above example?
" To initiate a failover from the master to the slave, create the 'trigger file': touch ~/pg82demo/trigger This should immediately cause the slave to finish processing archived segments, exitrecovery mode, and come up ready for use "
Does the wal archives are applied to the standby server at this point and it has all the contents(tables,indexes,tabledata etc) at this point?