Re: warm standby database on 8.0.4

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Ali, Luqman" <luqman(dot)ali(at)sanmina-sci(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: warm standby database on 8.0.4
Date: 2007-06-07 13:55:59
Message-ID: 353.1181224559@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Ali, Luqman" <luqman(dot)ali(at)sanmina-sci(dot)com> writes:
> I was wondering if anyone has had success implementing a warm spare
> database using WAL archiving on a v8.0.4 database. I know the
> documentation that states warm spare was in 8.2.4 manual but having read
> and re-read it, it "should" work as it is not using any v8.2-specific
> feature to achieve this.

It might look that way, but actually a whole lot of fine-tuning and
fixing of corner cases went on between 8.0 and 8.2. I would describe
8.0's support for this as being beta-quality ...

regards, tom lane

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