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    Enhance documentation of the build-in standby mode, explaining the retry · 991bfe11
    Heikki Linnakangas authored
    loop in standby mode, trying to restore from archive, pg_xlog and
    streaming.
    
    Move sections around to make the high availability chapter more
    coherent: the most prominent part is now a "Log-Shipping Standby Servers"
    section that describes what a standby server is (like the old
    "Warm Standby Servers for High Availability" section), and how to
    set up a warm standby server, including streaming replication, using the
    built-in standby mode. The pg_standby method is desribed in another
    section called "Alternative method for log shipping", with the added
    caveat that it doesn't work with streaming replication.
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