Hello,
I have a master multi slave streaming replication setup. One master and two slaves. I need to do some maintenance on one of the slaves as one of the drives died however there is some other weird things going on in that array that I would need to investigate. So I am expecting the machine to be down at least two hours.
I remember reading that if a master cannot connect to the slave it would hold the log file from shipping. Is there any other way to hold the file until the slave comes back online? Would it affect both slaves not getting their files shipped over?
The good thing is that the slave in question is not serving any connections.
From what I remember emptying out the archive_command would pause log shipping. Can the same be done by issuing a pg_stop_backup()?
Thanks,
-Joseph Kregloh