Re: Avoiding timeline generation

On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> wrote:
> * Offline WAL application -- I want to be able to bring up a second
> server, perform some amount of point in time recovery, and then stop
> and archive.  It would be nice to support read-only queries in this
> case to test the recovered database.  The goal of this is to reduce
> recovery time in a disaster scenario without tying up resources on a
> live server.

The new 9.1 feature paise_at_recovery_target seems like it might be what you need here.

...Robert