Re: 8.2 "real-time" recovery - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Dragos Valentin Moinescu <dragos.moinescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> 8.2.3 production server

http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release.html

> backup server ... that should keep updating hourly the db cluster
> based on WAL files received from production server

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/warm-standby.html

Starting with the 9.0 release (which is expected to be out next
month) you will be able to stream WAL data in near real-time and run
read-only queries on the standby.

-Kevin