On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:15:18PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> You could also use WAL shipping and some PITR trickery to keep a 'warm
> standby' database up to date. How far behind it falls is up to you,
> since you'll be periodically syncing the current WAL file to the backup
> machine. Do the sync once a minute, and at most you lose 60 seconds of
> data.
Right. But you have to write all of that, and write the failover
scripts, and such like. And the OP suggested that there wasn't time
budget for that. But it'd work.
A
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