[ADMIN] Wal standbies switchover

2007-08-02 Thread Dimitri Gritsenko
Goal - having 1 master and 2 standbies - make switchover in the way , that except minimal downtime - there was always 1 running master and 2 warm standbies. Lets say i have 3 hosts (1,2,3) , 1 master and 2 warm standbies . ( M1 SB2 SB3) Each SB gets (Master rsyncs from his side to SB) archived

Re: [ADMIN] pg_catalog.pg_roles DESTROYED?

2007-08-02 Thread Phillip Smith
Sounds like you're using a newer version of psql to connect to the older host. psql 8.2.4 would throw up errors like that when connecting to a 7.4.7 box - when you login to the old box, then run psql, you would be running the old version of psql and hence the error disappears. Cheers, ~p

[ADMIN] pg_catalog.pg_roles DESTROYED?

2007-08-02 Thread Ralph Smith
I'm preparing to upgrade a 7.4.7 DB to 8.2.4. I just got connectivity from new to old (different hosts), and being a newhire and no-one had ever done any maintenance on the old DB, I connected as joe-user to the old DB using the client of the new. (joe-user is the owner of the DB) I did

Re: [ADMIN] pg_catalog.pg_roles DESTROYED?

2007-08-02 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Ralph Smith wrote: I'm preparing to upgrade a 7.4.7 DB to 8.2.4. I just got connectivity from new to old (different hosts), and being a newhire and no-one had ever done any maintenance on the old DB, I connected as joe-user to the old DB using the client of the new.