Having concluded I really need to start playing with hot standby, I started looking for documentation on the subject. I found what I was looking for; I also found this page[1], which, it seems, ought to mention hot standby. Comments?
[1] http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/high-availability.html -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com
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