On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 06:59 +0000, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
> >>>
> >> So in the "Hot Standby" setup as described in
> >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hot-standby.html , how would I
> >> automatically make the slave a master?
> > I think you're looking for this:
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/warm-standby-failover.html
> >
> What is the difference between the "Hot-Standby" and "Warm-Standby"? Is
> the only different that the "Hot-Standby" standby servers are read-only,
> whereas the "Warm-Standby" standbys can't be queried at all?
The title of the second HTML page is now out of date. So there is no
warm/hot confusion to worry about, just the name of the page and URL.
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