Re: Warm standby failover mechanism

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:33 +0000, Thom Brown wrote:
>         You are doing this the hard way. Grab PITRTTools.
>
>         https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools
>
>
> I can't really dispute a recommendation from JD.  I'll have to look
> into that.  It's a shame because we've spent ages trying to work out
> where we've been going wrong in this whole process (we still haven't
> got it picking up WALs from the archive).

As a note, all PITRTools does is wrap around all the tools that you are
trying to make work. So you will still need pg_standby, rsync, ssh
etc...

I have updated the wiki to make it a bit more friendly.

https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/wiki

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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