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Re: Hot Backup using WAL files



Damian Lubosch <dl(at)xiqit(dot)de> writes:
> My problem now is, how to continually feed the slave server with new
> received WAL files?

You need to make the restore_command script wait until the next WAL file
is available, instead of failing immediately.

This is actually not that simple to get right.  You might want to try
pg_standby which will ship with 8.3:
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/

			regards, tom lane



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