Re: warm standby with WAL shipping

On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:21 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:

> My problem is, I never see a *.history file, thus my script sits in a
> loop looking for it.  I see the WAL files showing up on the archive
> server, but I don't see a *.history file.
>
> What am I missing?

pg_standby it self isn't a solution for warm standby. It is a component
thereof. Also don't use SCP. Use rsync. Take a look at walmgr or
PITRTools it will make your life easier.


Joshua D. Drake

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