Josh Kupershmidt <schmi...@gmail.com> writes: > From this description, it sounds like you're trying to shortcut the > process of bringing your old primary server (server A) up-to-date with > the currently-running server (server B). In order to bring server A > up-to-date with B, you'll need to follow *all* the steps on that wiki > page to set server A up as a warm standby of B, particularly the > pg_start_backup(); rsync'ing of PGDATA over to A, etc.
See repmgr for a way to mitigate than by using 2 standby servers: http://projects.2ndquadrant.com/repmgr https://github.com/greg2ndQuadrant/repmgr http://groups.google.com/group/repmgr Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
