Re: "hot standby" system

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Chris Campbell <chris(at)bignerdranch(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "hot standby" system
Date: 2006-07-22 00:49:01
Message-ID: 44C175FD.7080803@commandprompt.com
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> Is this possible today in a stable and robust way? If so, can we
> document the procedure? If not, should we alter the documentation so
> it's not misleading? I've had several people ask me where to enable the
> "hot standby" feature, not realizing that PostgreSQL only has some of
> the raw materials that could be used to architect such a thing.

Well it works fine depending on how you set it up :) Please feel free to
submit a patch to the docs.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Thanks!
>
> - Chris
>
> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/backup-online.html
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