warm standby server

Hi,

I am using pg 8.3 and configured warm standby server. It is working
well, but my db is relative big ( ~ 40 GB).

Is it possible to stop running ?"Warm standby server" and? when it
starts again to continue executing WALs from the stop moment.

I'm using following command to stop the server:

kill -SIGINT `head -1 /POSTGRESQL_DATA_DIR/postmaster.pid`

but when it starts again there is broken link
"/POSTGRESQL_DATA_DIR/pg_xlog/RECOVERYHISTORY" which points to the
following missing file "/WAL_ARCHIVE_DIR/00000001.history"

i wonder if it is fatal or not?
I will not to start the process ot making the base backup and send
it to my warm standby server. My warm standby server is on diferent
location connected via slow connection.
regards, Ivan.

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