[ADMIN] Another PITR question

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Whitney
Sorry for the repetition on some of this stuff. I'm just now learning it. So, I've got my WALs archiving just fine, and I've got my base backup. What I'd like to do is keep the standby server in recovery mode. Docs say: If we continuously feed the series of WAL files to another machine that has

Re: [ADMIN] Another PITR question

2008-10-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Scott Whitney wrote: However, I want the standby to CONSTANTLY stay in recovery mode, not just restore the WALs it finds when I start it. Is this possible? Can someone explain or point me to some example docs somewhere? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/pgstandby.html -- Alvaro

Re: [ADMIN] Another PITR question

2008-10-22 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:09 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Scott Whitney wrote: However, I want the standby to CONSTANTLY stay in recovery mode, not just restore the WALs it finds when I start it. Is this possible? Can someone explain or point me to some example docs somewhere?