On November 2, 2011 08:55:39 AM Debasis Mishra wrote: > My doubt is - Whether cluster should start the postgres service in > secondary node during failover or postgress will be running always. My > undersatnding was in both the node postgress will be running and pointing > to shared dbdata. And if node1/primary fails then cluster software should > bring node2/secondary up.once it will bring node2 online there postgress > must be running already.
You definitely cannot have 2 postmasters running against the same shared disk. The cluster software will need to start PostgreSQL on the secondary node after taking over the IP address and shared disk resource. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
