On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:03 PM, akp geek <akpgeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One more thing.. pardon me for being dumb > > I want to set the 2 nd slave as HOT STAND BY, not steaming .. Hot standby assumes being streaming. You can not establish a hot standby without using streaming replication. What is the reason not to do it streaming? BTW, you will find the SSH tunnel instructions here http://code.google.com/p/pgcookbook/wiki/Streaming_Replication_Setup -- Kind regards, Sergey Konoplev PostgreSQL Consultant and DBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/grayhemp +1 (415) 867-9984, +7 (901) 903-0499, +7 (988) 888-1979 gray.ru@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general