Re: [GENERAL] Replication recovery?

2012-05-18 Thread Sergey Konoplev
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:10 PM, John Mudd wrote: > For example, I take it that if the master is unavailable then you > switch to a slave. The former slave becomes the current master. When > the original "master" is ready to run and network accessible then do > you bring it online in slave mode a

Re: [GENERAL] Replication recovery?

2012-05-18 Thread Albe Laurenz
John Mudd wrote: > Sorry if this is a dumb question. Feel free to just point me to a doc. Sure, here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/warm-standby-failover.html > I've read a little about Postgres replication and the concept of a > master and one or more slaves. If one db is down th

[GENERAL] Replication recovery?

2012-05-17 Thread John Mudd
Sorry if this is a dumb question. Feel free to just point me to a doc. I've read a little about Postgres replication and the concept of a master and one or more slaves. If one db is down then you just switch to one that's still running. There's even additional software like pgpool to make the swit