[pgpool-general: 931] Re: some questions about online recovery

[Kent Tong]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at postgresql.org> wrote:

> That's a duty of archive command.
>

Fair enough. So, that example assumes that the postgreSQL WAL archive
(where the archive_command copies to) is accessible by all the nodes?

>
> pgpool_switch_xlog does more than pg_switch_xlog. It waits for log
> switching completion by looking at $archdir.
>

Yes, I know. But what is the purpose of forcing a log switch?

Thanks!
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.pgpool.net/pipermail/pgpool-general/attachments/20120830/10bf909a/attachment.htm>