On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Gary Webster <webster@lexmark.com> wrote:
> I am configuring warm-standby as documented here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/warm-standby.html
>
> I am using "pg_standby", & may have it working corrrectly, but am not sure.
>
> 1) The standby database never 'starts', right? (/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4
> start" times out; I can't connect to the db to see if tables are correct).
>
> 2) Because of #1, I suppose I can't do a pg_dump on the standby db?
Exactly. That's what Hot Standby does in 9.x
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