Re: [ADMIN] Warm/hot backup server question

2007-10-08 Thread Faber J. Fedor
On 07/10/07 21:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > If they won't let you update to 7.4.18 (the current release in that > branch), you would be best advised to resign at once, before you get > blamed for the train wreck that is inevitably in this system's future. Done. Now, how are you on giving advice to

[ADMIN] Warm/hot backup server question

2007-10-07 Thread Faber J. Fedor
Hi, I've been given the job of creating a hot/warm backup server for a live Postgresql server. The problem is two-fold: 1) it's version 7.4.9 and an upgrade is not feasible at this time and b) there are multiple instances of postgresql running on the box; not multiple databases, multiple *servers