Re: Warm standby Service doesn't startup

On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:12 +0200, Al-Salami, Adel wrote:
> I have created a warm standby successfully, everything work fine also
> the applying of the archive from primary, my problem is that the
> Service under windows 2008r2 doesn't start if the standby is running
> (I get a start service timeout).
> If I use the pg_ctl start -D D:\<my data> it will succeed however the
> windows service wont start.
> Using the net start to the start the service will hang and the log
> file keeps on writing;
>
> 2011-09-06 13:52:57 CEST FATAL: the database system is starting up
>
> Is it normal that the Warm Standby doesn't let the service to start
> under windows?
> Am not sure to go live with this standby as I cannot start the
> service.

*Warm* standby servers don't accept connections / queries, so the
message above is quite ok. If you move to PostgreSQL 9.0+, there is "hot
standby" option, which lets you run read-only queries on standby server.

Regards,
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