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
• Latest Release: pitrtool-1.3-rc1.tar.gz
• GIT (Unstable):
  

  $ 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://github.com/commandprompt/PITRTools/blob/master/cmd_standby.README
• Archiver documentation: https://github.com/commandprompt/PITRTools/blob/master/cmd_archiver.README
• PITRtools how-to: How To Configure Warm Standby with PITRTools
• 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