Re: pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

David Wall <d.wall@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> 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?

Server crash is okay.  kill -9 on a postmaster is never a good idea, for
reasons I don't feel like repeating --- see the archives.

			regards, tom lane

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