In this section, we will talk about replication. Why do we have to have replicas? The problem with PITR is that recovery often takes a long time before a server can be restored:
In a production environment, you often need to be able to restore the production environment as quickly as possible after a system crash. In order do this, we have to use the streaming replication technique. To make this possible, we need at least two servers, one master server and one slave server. The master server performs all the operations that will be requested by the application programs; the slave server will be available only for read operations and will have the data copied in real time.
Basic concept
The idea behind streaming replication is to copy the WAL files from the master server to another (slave) server. The slave server will be in a state of continuous recovery and it continuously executes the WAL that is passed by the master machine; in this way, the slave machine...
