Re: time-delayed standbys

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/task.php?id=344
> According to the above page, one purpose of time-delayed replication is to
> protect against user mistakes on master. But, when an user notices his wrong
> operation on master, what should he do next? The WAL records of his wrong
> operation might have already arrived at the standby, so neither "promote" nor
> "restart" doesn't cancel that wrong operation. Instead, probably he should
> shutdown the standby, investigate the timestamp of XID of the operation
> he'd like to cancel, set recovery_target_time and restart the standby.
> Something like this procedures should be documented? Or, we should
> implement new "promote" mode which finishes a recovery as soon as
> "promote" is requested (i.e., not replay all the available WAL records)?
>

i would prefer something like "pg_ctl promote -m immediate" that
terminates the recovery

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