Opening a recovering DB in for read-only access?

Sounds somewhat evil, I know, but I was wondering if it was even
remotely possible with the current design?

The reason: we are contemplating using pg_standy to create a
warm-standby. It would be a bonus if we would run read-only queries
against this DB to take some of the load off or production servers.

We currently use slony to provide warm-standby *and* read-only access,
but pg_standby is a great deal more appealing...especially if there was
some way to do read-only access at the same time.

FWIW, the data would not even need to be completely consistent ... the
kinds of things we are looking at offloading are large summary-type
sequential scans of big tables.

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