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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting ready

Hot Standby is usable with the following:

  • File-based replication
  • Streaming replication
  • While performing a point-in-time recovery
  • When using a permanently frozen standby

For the first two replication mechanisms, you will need to configure replication as described in earlier recipes. In addition, you will need to configure the following parameters:

On the master, set the following in postgresql.conf:

wal_level  =  ‘replica’  #  PostgreSQL  9.6 and above, else hot_standby

On the standby, set the following in postgresql.conf:

hot_standby = on

Both of those settings are now the default in PostgreSQL 10. In earlier versions you will need to make these changes. You will need to do a clean restart of the database server on the master. ...

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