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From: Vladimir Protasov <eoranged@ya.ru>
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Hi, guys!  
I want to completely disallow postgres to write WAL and turn it to read-only instance WAL-compatible with another instance.  
It is guarantied that there will be no write queries to the server, but I need to be sure about WAL.

Is it possible?

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Best regards,
Vladimir Protasov.