>> Thanks, Guillaume. Can anyone confirm his answer to the question below
>> about restarting the backup postmaster?
>>
>
> IIRC, it works conveniently in 8.2 and up. Just do pg_ctl stop -m fast.
>
Thanks, Tom. What about if the postmaster is just killed (kill pid, or
kill -9 pid) or the server/OS crashes? Will PG 8.3 in recovery mode be
able to come back up okay and resume recovery?
David