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Physical Replication

Replication & HA

Replication by streaming raw WAL bytes from primary to standby. The standby maintains an exact byte-for-byte copy of the primary's data files. Cannot selectively replicate individual tables. Also called streaming replication.

Related terms

Logical ReplicationStreaming Replication
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