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On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:52:49 -0400
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]
> But what you want is that if it does happen to go down for some reason before
> all the WAL is streamed, you can bring it back up and finish streaming the
> WAL without generating any new WAL.

Thanks to cascading replication, it could be very possible without this READ
ONLY mode, just in recovery mode, isn't it?

Regards,