Re: Switchover of Master and Slave roles

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:59:07AM -0700, A J wrote:
>> We then rely on filesystem tools (or other third party tools) to get the
>> original master in sync with the new master efficiently and then make it join as
>> slave.
>
> the doc would not be corrupted by an additional few words that stated as such:
>
> "To return to normal operation, a standby server must be recreated using
> external tools such as rsync, either on the former primary system when
> it comes up, or on a third, possibly new, system."

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