On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:09:25PM -0400, james bardin wrote: > Thanks Ken. The more I think about it, the more I feel we should move > away from upstream, and pull the latest version for this. > > > So on with newer versions - > When using the built-in systems for warm standby, how do I ensure that > the latest transactions have been archived? Does a clean shutdown > flush and archive the WAL within the archive_timeout period? > > Thanks > -jim > Hi Jim, I think that you will be really happy at the improvements in the 8.4 release. Regarding the warm-standby, take a look at the contrib module pg_standby in the 8.4 release. It includes a good example implementation for this process. Regards, Ken > > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Kenneth Marshall<ktm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > James, > > > > You really, really, really should upgrade to a more recent > > release. The list of improvements and bugfixes is long and > > well worth having. 8.1 was released 4 years ago. If you > > cannot, please, please make certain that you are running > > the latest point release -- regardless of what is shipping > > with RHEL5. > > > > Good luck, > > Ken > > > -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
