Обсуждение: two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

Hello.

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?

Thanks.
Gx

Gx  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?

Sounds right on all counts to me.  Starting with 9.0 you can have a
hot standby which can be queried while it is the replication target.

-Kevin