Re: [GENERAL] HA options

2012-01-16 Thread David Morton
Have you looked at a 'shared storage' solution based on DRBD ? I configured a test environment using SLES HAE and DRBD with relative ease and it behaved very well (can probably supply a build script if you like), there are lots of people running production systems on similar setups although I th

Re: [GENERAL] HA options

2012-01-16 Thread David Morton
Is shared storage an option for you ? We've had a fairly pleasant experience with shared storage partnered up with SLES and its HAE (high availability extension) suite using a Pacemaker cluster for resource control. On top of this we replicate to a hot standby server offsite, however used for re

Re: [GENERAL] Help with Multiple Cluster on same host

2011-12-21 Thread David Morton
The first and most obvious check will be the pg_hba.conf file for the allowed hosts ... these files are specific to the instance. From: Jacques Lamothe To: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2011 10:02 AM Subject: [GENERAL] Help with

Re: [GENERAL] upgrading from 8.3 to 9.0

2011-11-17 Thread David Morton
I've performed a very similar upgrade including postgis upgrade at the same time, we used the following command examples ... also put some simple scripting together to dump multiple databases in parallel as downtime was critical: Dump database data: pg_dump -Fc database --compress=1 > /mnt/dumps

Re: [GENERAL] Where to get PG 9.0.5 SLES RPM's !?

2011-11-15 Thread David Morton
No suggestions about where to get the phantom RPM's ? I've managed to locate a source RPM for 9.0.3 which I'm going to look at using with source from 9.0.5 ____ From: David Morton To: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" Sent: Monday,

[GENERAL] Where to get PG 9.0.5 SLES RPM's !?

2011-11-13 Thread David Morton
I'm desperately trying to get a hold of the latest RPM's for PostgreSQL 9.0..5 for SLES 11 SP1 x86_64 I simply can not find these anywhere !! It seems that the good folk over at software.opensuse.org are only compiling 9.1.x now. Rather annoying to say the least for those of us who don't wa

[GENERAL] PG 9.0.5 RPM's for SLES - Where to get !?

2011-11-10 Thread David Morton
I'm desperately trying to get a hold of the latest RPM's for PostgreSQL 9.0..5 for SLES 11 SP1 x86_64 ... I simply can not find these anywhere !! It seems that the good folk over at software.opensuse.org are only compiling 9.1.x now. Rather annoying to say the least for those of us who don't wan