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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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How to do it…

To archive a physical WAL from a server called alpha, follow these steps:

  1. If you decide to use replication slots, then create a slot using steps 1 to 3 of the Using replication slots recipe.
  2. Execute the tool on the client:
pg_receivewal -D /pgarchive/alpha -d $MYCONNECTIONSTRING &
  1. If using slots, also use the --slot=slotname parameter on the command line.

If the connection from the client tool to the server is lost, the default behavior is to loop indefinitely while trying to re-establish a connection. If you want the client tool to exit if the connection is lost, then specify the -n or --no-loop options.

The pg_recvlogical utility requires some form of logical decoding plugin, so look at the instructions for the plugin ...

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