On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:18 AM, John Lister <john.lister-ps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I've successfully set up a slave system using WAL archiving and pg_standby, but I have a couple of questions.I have a couple of questions:Is it possible to stop the database server (for maintenance for example) and resume the recovery without starting afresh and making a complete backup of the original again?
Yes, it won't begin reading at the very first logfile, it will start based on your last checkpoint:
Secondly is it possible to start the database in "readonly" (using set default_transaction_read_only) and make a query before resuming the recovery?
No, this feature is only available in 9.0 (which is in alpha) and beyond.
--Scott M
