Re: pg_standby

On Mar 29, 2:17 pm, t(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)o(dot)ptimized(dot)com ("Thomas F. O'Connell") wrote:
> I see that Simon has pushed pg_standbyinto contrib for 8.3. Is there
> anything that would make the current version in CVS unsuitable for
use
> in 8.2.x? I've done a cursory inspection of the code, but I'll admit
> that I haven't looked up the interfaces used from postgres_fe.h and
> pg_config_manual.h to see whether anything would be unusable or
behave
> unexpectedly in 8.2.
>
> I'm assuming the correct way to install it would be to take the
pg_standby directory from CVS, add it to an 8.2.x source contrib tree,
> and build as if it were a part of contrib in 8.2?

A post from Simon on a thread in pgsql-admin answers the primary
question:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2007-04/msg00069.php

And I answered the part about building from testing. The answer seems
to be "yes".

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