On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:10 +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote: > Another issue is that unless you got the archive_command right in the > master server from the beginning, you will have to restart the server > once you decide to build your standby... the archive_command is a > start-up time parameter
Much of your difficulty seems to come from your thinking that this parameter requires a restart. It doesn't - check it out. The script need not be complex, you only need to put a wait loop in the restore script so that it waits for the next log file. Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org