Search Documentation: Home → Documentation → Manuals → PostgreSQL 9.3 This page in other versions: 8.4 / 9.0 / 9.1 / 9.2 / 9.3 |  Development versions: devel |  Unsupported versions: 8.2 / 8.3 PostgreSQL 9.3.4 Documentation Prev Up Chapter 25. High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication Next 25.2. Log-Shipping Standby Servers Continuous archiving can be used to create a high availability (HA) cluster configuration with one or more standby servers ready to take over operations if the primary server fails. This capability is widely referred to as warm standby or log shipping . The primary and standby server work together to provide this capability, though the servers are only loosely coupled. The primary server operates in continuous archiving mode, while each standby server operates in continuous recovery mode, reading...