On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 11:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Damian Lubosch <dl@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > My problem now is, how to continually feed the slave server with new > > received WAL files? > > You need to make the restore_command script wait until the next WAL file > is available, instead of failing immediately. > > This is actually not that simple to get right. You might want to try > pg_standby which will ship with 8.3: > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/ Thanks Tom. pg_standby will be back compatible with 8.2 also, though isn't available as part of the 8.2 distribution. The README will contain information for both 8.2 and 8.3 releases, since there will be one minor difference. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com