Re: [ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Gary Webster wrote: > Thanks for the informative replies. > > So, is Hot Standby the recommended way to do HA? > My application does not need to be able to do queries on the standby. Streaming replication is the recommended way to do HA, which is roughly "yes".

Re: [ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. Thanks for the informative replies. So, is Hot Standby the recommended way to do HA? My application does not need to be able to do queries on the standby. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Gary Webster wrote: > > > I am configuring w

Re: [ADMIN] Best practise for upgrade of 24GB+ database

2012-01-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 16:45, Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA) > wrote: >> In the past I've used Slony to upgrade much larger database clusters than >> yours with minimal down time (I'm talking seconds for the actual master >> switch

Re: [ADMIN] Best practise for upgrade of 24GB+ database

2012-01-23 Thread Andreas Hasenack
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 16:45, Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA) wrote: > In the past I've used Slony to upgrade much larger database clusters than > yours with minimal down time (I'm talking seconds for the actual master > switch).  You set up a new replica on the new version and then move the

Re: [ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Gary Webster wrote: > I am configuring warm-standby as documented here: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/warm-standby.html > > I am using "pg_standby", & may have it working corrrectly, but am not sure. > > 1)  The standby database never 'starts',

Re: [ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 09:48 -0500, Gary Webster wrote: > 1) The standby database never 'starts', right? > (/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start" times out; I can't connect to the > db to see if tables are correct). > > 2) Because of #1, I suppose I can't do a pg_dump on the standby db? Both a

[ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. I am configuring warm-standby as documented here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/warm-standby.html I am using "pg_standby", & may have it working corrrectly, but am not sure. 1) The standby database never 'starts', right? (/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start" times out; I ca

[ADMIN] "service user account 'postgres' could not be created"

2012-01-23 Thread Al-Salami, Adel
Hi, for all who may encounter this error message on windows 2008R2 using the one click installer: DO NOT create a test machine named "Postgres" (the same as the service account user name) and try to install Postgres Server on it after that, cause you will get the above mentioned error messag

Re: [ADMIN] Best practise for upgrade of 24GB+ database

2012-01-23 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
> -Original Message- > From: francis picabia [mailto:fpica...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 3:39 PM > To: Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA) > Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Best practise for upgrade of 24GB+ database > > In the past I've used Slony to up