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+
High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication
Standby Server Operation
- In standby mode, the server continously applies WAL received from the
+ In standby mode, the server continuously applies WAL received from the
master server. The standby server can read WAL from a WAL archive
(see restore_command>) or directly from the master
over a TCP connection (streaming replication). The standby server will
Set up continuous archiving on the primary to an archive directory
accessible from the standby, as described
in . The archive location should be
- accessible from the standby even when the master is down, ie. it should
+ accessible from the standby even when the master is down, i.e. it should
reside on the standby server itself or another trusted server, not on
the master server.
Alternative method for log shipping
- An alternative to the built-in standby mode desribed in the previous
+ An alternative to the built-in standby mode described in the previous
sections is to use a restore_command that polls the archive location.
This was the only option available in versions 8.4 and below. In this
setup, set standby_mode> off, because you are implementing