On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:30 AM, John Smith <jayzee.smith@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i want to setup a warm standby that listens 24/7 but only syncs when
> told to (ie only when i am ok with the database updates, will i
> trigger the sync).
> can i?
>
> i don't want to manually backup and restore like i do now.
That's what pause_at_recovery_target is aimed for:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/recovery-target-settings.html
Simply set up the recovery target you want to check, and use
pause_at_recovery_target to put the standby in a latent state you can
check. If the state of your server does not satisfy your needs,
shutdown the server and change the target. Note that operations are
not backward btw.
--
Michael