Re: Slony and local machine slave..(supernewbie question) - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Scott Mead<scott.lists@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

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>   It may make more sense to setup a dedicated PITR slave in your office, and
> refresh it every now and then.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/continuous-archiving.html

Thanks. This was useful. So much for my brainwave.

I certainly don't wish to lose the ALTER TABLE option if I go for
Slony method. Am I right to understand that the PITR setup is separate
from the whole Slony shebang, and that PITR stuff can be setup all
with just the main install of PG itself?