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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> - or maybe provide a .bat file or perl script that would work as na 
>>> archive_command on Windows.
>>
>> We're not talking about archive_command. We're talking about the thing 
>> that copies files to the directory that pg_standby polls.
> 
> Er, that's what the archive_command is. Look at the pg_standby docs and 
> you'll see that that's where we're currently recommending use of windows 
> copy. Perhaps you're confusing this with the restore_command?

Oh, right. I was thinking that archive_command copies the files to an 
archive location, and there's yet another process copying files from 
there to the directory pg_standby polls. But indeed in the simple 
configuration, archive_command is the command that we're interested in.

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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