On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:58 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> you can manually throw pg_switch_xlog(), In practice, this is more of
> an issue on development boxes than anything if you server is at all
> busy.
>
That won't speed up recovery, that will just force the WAL segment to be
archived. It's still up to the standby to find the log and replay it.
Regards,
Jeff Davis