"Ali, Luqman" <luqman.ali@sanmina-sci.com> writes:
> I was wondering if anyone has had success implementing a warm spare
> database using WAL archiving on a v8.0.4 database. I know the
> documentation that states warm spare was in 8.2.4 manual but having read
> and re-read it, it "should" work as it is not using any v8.2-specific
> feature to achieve this.
It might look that way, but actually a whole lot of fine-tuning and
fixing of corner cases went on between 8.0 and 8.2. I would describe
8.0's support for this as being beta-quality ...
regards, tom lane