Re: pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

[David Wall <d.wall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Guillaume.  Can anyone confirm his answer to the question below 
about restarting the backup postmaster? 
    

IIRC, it works conveniently in 8.2 and up.  Just do pg_ctl stop -m fast.
  

Thanks, Tom.  What about if the postmaster is just killed (kill pid, or kill -9 pid) or the server/OS crashes?  Will PG 8.3 in recovery mode be able to come back up okay and resume recovery?

David