Re: two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

Hello.
Thanks for the informative replies.

So, is Hot Standby the recommended way to do HA?
My application does not need to be able to do queries on the standby.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Gary Webster <webster(at)lexmark(dot)com> 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?
>
> Exactly. That's what Hot Standby does in 9.x
>
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