On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> If you ever want to mess around with log >> shipping I strongly suggest you go through the motions of setting up a >> warm standby vi the pg_standby utility and practice popping the >> standby out of recovery. > > Thanks for the reply! I want to be certain that I understand the > point you are making: > > Is setting up a warm standby server good pratice for gaining > experience in PITR or do you mean that PITR is a good starting point > for setting up a warm standby server? setting up a warm standby is good for understanding pitr. A warm standby just 'lays on top' of pitr and you should learn how to do it. merlin
