Re: warm standby with WAL shipping

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 14:43 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>
> > pg_standby is in no way dependent on PITRTools. PITRTools is, however,
> > dependent on pg_standby. Put another way: you do not need to use
> > PITRTools to use pg_standby. In fact, you also don't need any perl or
> > shell scripts to use pg_standby, just use rsync directly in the
> > archive_command on the master and pg_standby in the recovery_command on
> > the standby. The wiki link Greg provided
> > (http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Warm_Standby) has all of the info
> > needed to set things up manually.
>
> Our current scenario is that we are archiving from machine A to machine
> B. Our hot spare is machine C, thus we are pulling the files via
> network from machine B to machine C, hence the reason I don't believe
> db_standby will work as it has no facility (rsync,scp) to retrieve the
> files from another machine.

The point that is being made is that pg_standby doesn't need pitrtools
to do its job. That is all. It is also why I said that pg_standby is
just a component of a PITR solution and not a PITR Solution in itself.
You are still going to need to either:

A. Reinvent the wheel, by scripting it all yourself
B. Use solutions that are already used by others such as walmgr or
pitrtools

Joshua D. Drake

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