Re: two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

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