Hi, Your email just came in time. We are planning to build a heartbeat but have not decided on the right approach. Maybe we can work together.
Thank you. Warmest Regards, Selvam On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Jody McIntyre <[email protected]>wrote: > Has anyone successfully configured heartbeat + pacemaker (or any other HA > package for that matter) to control PostgreSQL in log shipping mode? All > the examples I've found use drbd. > > My current thinking is to start/stop the database as in a non HA setup > (using upstart, since this is Ubuntu), and write a custom pacemaker resource > agent such that: > > - "start" on the secondary creates a trigger file and waits for recovery to > complete before returning success. "stop" does nothing (returns success.) > Pacemaker would be configured for manual failback. > - "start" and "stop" on the primary does nothing. We would STONITH the > primary before taking over the database. > > Does this sound reasonable? Has anyone else tried this? > > Thanks, > Jody >
