Re: two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: <gx(dot)webster(at)gmail(dot)com>,<pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4
Date: 2012-02-04 22:07:17
Message-ID: 4F2D57B50200002500044DCA@gw.wicourts.gov
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Gx wrote:

> I am configuring warm-standby as documented here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/warm-standby.html
>
> I am using "pg_standby", & may have it working corrrectly, but am
> not sure.
>
> 1) The standby database never 'starts', right?
> (/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start" times out; I can't connect to
> the db to see if tables are correct).
>
> 2) Because of #1, I suppose I can't do a pg_dump on the standby db?

Sounds right on all counts to me. Starting with 9.0 you can have a
hot standby which can be queried while it is the replication target.

-Kevin

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