Yes, 'warm standby' was what I intended to write. This must have been some kind of wishful thinking. ;) But I'd really appreciate 'hot standby' in a future version of postgres. Marc Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Marc Schablewski <ms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> we are running a PostgreSQL 8.3.3 on a Linux box (SuSE 10.3, 2.6.22 >> kernel) as a hot standby. After some maintenances work the WAL files >> > > I'm assuming you meant 'warm standby'...hot standby servers can be > served for queries. This feature is proposed for PostgreSQL 8.4 > > merlin > > > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general