Re: two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Gary Webster <webster(at)lexmark(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4
Date: 2012-01-23 14:52:30
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Hi,

On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 09:48 -0500, Gary Webster wrote:

> 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?

Both are correct. You need to use 9.0+ to be able to read from standby.

Regards,
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