Re: Slony and local machine slave..(supernewbie question)

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Scott Mead<scott(dot)lists(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
> ...snip...
>
> > It may make more sense to setup a dedicated PITR slave in your office,
> and
> > refresh it every now and then.
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/continuous-archiving.html
>
>
>
> Thanks. This was useful. So much for my brainwave.
>
> I certainly don't wish to lose the ALTER TABLE option if I go for
> Slony method. Am I right to understand that the PITR setup is separate
> from the whole Slony shebang, and that PITR stuff can be setup all
> with just the main install of PG itself?

Exactly right.

--Scott