Re: [ADMIN] warm standby server

2008-12-10 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 14:23 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am using pg 8.3 and configured warm standby server. It is working > well, but my db is relative big ( ~ 40 GB). > > Is it possible to stop running "Warm standby server" and when it > starts again to continue executing WA

[ADMIN] warm standby server

2008-12-10 Thread zz_11
Hi, I am using pg 8.3 and configured warm standby server. It is working well, but my db is relative big ( ~ 40 GB). Is it possible to stop running ?"Warm standby server" and? when it starts again to continue executing WALs from the stop moment. I'm using following command to stop the ser

Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby server

2008-06-29 Thread Chander Ganesan
Scott & Montaseri, Montaseri wrote: While I am not an expert on WAL, but again I question the merits of such sophisticated HA configuration. Of course there are use cases for such configs, but I am only advocating best price performance kind of mentality As WAL writes the journals all the wa

Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby server

2008-06-26 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 13:01 -0500, Scott Whitney wrote: > A 2nd question: Is it possible to have 2 standby servers with a single > master duplicating to standby1 (at my coloc), and standby2 (at my office)? > Assume no auto-failover. Yes, that works too. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadran

Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby server

2008-06-26 Thread Scott Whitney
1:21 PM To: Scott Whitney Cc: Simon Riggs; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby server While I am not an expert on WAL, but again I question the merits of such sophisticated HA configuration. Of course there are use cases for such configs, but I am only advocating best price p

Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby server

2008-06-26 Thread Montaseri
itney; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby server > > I am not so sure of this arrangement's mertis > > From HA (High Availability) point of view, the host/server is a single > point > of failure which will bring your entire infrastructure down if

Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby server

2008-06-26 Thread Scott Whitney
andby2 (at my office)? Assume no auto-failover. -Original Message- From: Montaseri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jun 26, 2008 12:51 PM To: Simon Riggs Cc: Scott Whitney; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby server I am not so sure of this arrangement's m

Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby server

2008-06-26 Thread Montaseri
I am not so sure of this arrangement's mertis >From HA (High Availability) point of view, the host/server is a single point of failure which will bring your entire infrastructure down if any of the server hardware components fail. >From Performance point of view, you have increased the load on yo

Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby server

2008-06-26 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 10:19 -0500, Scott Whitney wrote: > I've got 3 different database servers (db01, db02 and db03). > > I would like to have a WAL standby server that replays logs for all 3 in > case one goes down, so I can promote that particular server. > > Can I do this by installing 3 sep

[ADMIN] Warm standby server

2008-06-26 Thread Scott Whitney
I've got 3 different database servers (db01, db02 and db03). I would like to have a WAL standby server that replays logs for all 3 in case one goes down, so I can promote that particular server. Can I do this by installing 3 separate postmasters on this machine? Obviously, if 2 went down at the s

[ADMIN] warm standby server configuration

2007-06-26 Thread George Wilk
Hi there, A bit of background information: I am running Postgres 8.2.4 on Solaris 10 in a warm standby configuration. My archive command scp's WAL logs from the live server to the standby server. The standby server runs in a recovery mode waiting for the WAL logs and processing them as they b