"Ali, Luqman" <luqman.ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I was wondering if anyone has had success implementing a warm spare > database using WAL archiving on a v8.0.4 database. I know the > documentation that states warm spare was in 8.2.4 manual but having read > and re-read it, it "should" work as it is not using any v8.2-specific > feature to achieve this. It might look that way, but actually a whole lot of fine-tuning and fixing of corner cases went on between 8.0 and 8.2. I would describe 8.0's support for this as being beta-quality ... regards, tom lane