Re: will PITR in 8.0 be usable for "hot spare"/"log shipping" type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gaetano Mendola
Subject Re: will PITR in 8.0 be usable for "hot spare"/"log shipping" type
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Msg-id 411A810E.8090705@bigfoot.com
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In response to Re: will PITR in 8.0 be usable for "hot spare"/"log shipping" type of replication  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> 
>>will PITR in 8.0 be usable for "hot spare"/"log shipping" type of
>>replication or is it just for Point In Time RECOVERY ?
> 
> 
> It should work; dunno if anyone has tried it yet.

I was thinking about it but I soon realized that actually is
impossible to do, postgres replay the log only if during the
start the file recover.conf is present in $DATA directory :-(

Am I missing the point ?


Regards
Gaetano Mendola






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