In a recent article here we’ve been talking about how do do Batch Updates in a very efficient way, using the Writable CTE features available in PostgreSQL 9.1. I sometime read how Common Table Expressions changed the life of fellow DBAs and developers, and would say that Writable CTE are at least the same boost again.
Let’s begin the Skytools 3 documentation effort, which is long overdue. The code is waiting for you over at github, and is stable and working. Why is it still in release candidate status, I hear you asking? Well because it’s missing updated documentation.
WalMgr is the Skytools component that manages WAL shipping for you, and archiving too. It knows how to prepare your master and standby setup, how to take a base backup and push it to the standby’s system, how to archive (at the satndby) master’s WAL files as they are produced and have the standby restore from this archive.