Re: Simplifying "standby mode"

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:

>> My memory is lousy at the best of times, but when have we had a minor 
>> release that would have broken this due to changed format? OTOH, the 
>> Primary and Backup servers need the same config settings (e.g. 
>> --enable-integer-datetimes), architecture, compiler, etc, do they not? 
>> Probably working from an identical set of binaries would be ideal.
>
> Not often, which is why I mention the possibility of having
> interoperating minor release levels at all. If it was common, I'd just
> put a blanket warning on doing that.

I don't know that it's happened in the past but I wouldn't be surprised.

Consider that the bug being fixed in the point release may well be a bug in
WAL log formatting. 

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