Welcome to Pitrtools Wiki¶

PITRTools is a set of wrapper scripts that provide warm standby functionality to PostgreSQL. The software is essentially two scripts, cmd_archiver.py and cmd_standby.py. The project is under the BSD license.

Getting PITRTools¶

• Stable tarball: pitrtools-1.2.tar.gz
• SVN:
  • Stable:
    

       svn co https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/repo/branches/1.2
    

  • Trunk (dev/unstable):
    

       svn co https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/repo/trunk
    

Or, PITRTools is now available on GitHub, via:

$ git clone git://github.com/commandprompt/PITRTools.git

Documentation¶

The documentation is reference documentation. You will need to be at least familiar with how PostgreSQL and log shipping works.

• Standby documentation: https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/browser/branches/1.2/cmd_standby.README
• Archiver documentation: https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools/browser/branches/1.2/cmd_archiver.README
• There is a talk that was given at SCALE and PostgreSQL Conference that can be found at SlideShare .

Getting Help¶

• There is consulting available from Command Prompt
• There is a very low traffic mailing list