Ühel kenal päeval, R, 2006-07-21 kell 20:00, kirjutas Chris Campbell: > The documentation [1] says this about On-line backup and point-in- > time recovery: > > > If we continuously feed the series of WAL files to another machine > > that has been loaded with the same base backup file, we have a "hot > > standby" system: at any point we can bring up the second machine > > and it will have a nearly-current copy of the database. > > Is this possible today in a stable and robust way? If so, can we > document the procedure? If not, should we alter the documentation so > it's not misleading? I've had several people ask me where to enable > the "hot standby" feature, not realizing that PostgreSQL only has > some of the raw materials that could be used to architect such a thing.
We have written a management script that manages the setup und failover procedures. It is a part of the SkyTools package we announced at the postgresql conference in Toronto. We failed to put it up on PgFoundry during the code sprint (it took a whole day to enable the project there :( ) and have not had enough time to do it after coming back. But it will be on PgFoundry eventually. Marko has the details if you need it faster -- ---------------- Hannu Krosing Database Architect Skype Technologies OÜ Akadeemia tee 21 F, Tallinn, 12618, Estonia Skype me: callto:hkrosing Get Skype for free: http://www.skype.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match