-
+
Backup and Restore
- It is also possible to use
Slony> to create a slave
- server with the updated version of
PostgreSQL>. The
- slave can be on the same computer or a different computer. Once it
- has synced up with the master server (running the older version of
-
PostgreSQL>), you can switch masters and make the slave
- the master and shut down the older database instance. Such a
- switch-over results in only several seconds of downtime for an upgrade.
+ It is also possible to use replication like
Slony> to
+ create a slave server with the updated version of
+
PostgreSQL>. The slave can be on the same computer or
+ a different computer. Once it has synced up with the master server
+ (running the older version of
PostgreSQL>), you can
+ switch masters and make the slave the master and shut down the older
+ database instance. Such a switch-over results in only several seconds
+ of downtime for an upgrade.