You sound like you know what you're talking about so then you probably know that WAL shipping requires the inverse to be working too. Your replica needs the ab

You sound like you know what you're talking about so then you probably know that WAL shipping requires the inverse to be working too. Your replica needs the ability to read from the WAL storage in the event that you have high transactional throughput. If you have a low volume then maybe you've never seen it, but it's in the documentation here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/archive-recovery-settings.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/archive-recovery-settings...