Re: [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Richard Broersma
<richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
>> If you ever want to mess around with log
>> shipping I strongly suggest you go through the motions of setting up a
>> warm standby vi the pg_standby utility and practice popping the
>> standby out of recovery.
>
> Thanks for the reply! I want to be certain that I understand the
> point you are making:
>
> Is setting up a warm standby server good pratice for gaining
> experience in PITR or do you mean that PITR is a good starting point
> for setting up a warm standby server?

setting up a warm standby is good for understanding pitr. A warm
standby just 'lays on top' of pitr and you should learn how to do it.

merlin