Re: Hot Backup using WAL files

Damian Lubosch <dl@xiqit.de> writes:
> My problem now is, how to continually feed the slave server with new
> received WAL files?

You need to make the restore_command script wait until the next WAL file
is available, instead of failing immediately.

This is actually not that simple to get right.  You might want to try
pg_standby which will ship with 8.3:
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/

            regards, tom lane