Re: Warm standby: 1 to N

Yaroslav Tykhiy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Let's consider the following case: WAL segments from a master have
> been shipped to N warm standby servers, and now the master fails.
> Using this or that mechanism, one of the warm standbys takes over and
> becomes the new master.  Now the question is what to do with the other
> N-1 warm standbys.  By the failure, all N warm standbys were the same
> exact copies of the master.  So at least in theory, the N-1 warm
> standbys left can be fed with WAL segments from the new master.  Do
> you think it will work in practice?  Are there any pitfalls?

I think it should work.

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