Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-10 Thread Khangelani Gama
Thank You, I will have a look. -Original Message- From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:45 PM To: Khangelani Gama; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem On 06/09/2014 10:02 PM, Khangelani Gama

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 06/09/2014 10:02 PM, Khangelani Gama wrote: -Original Message- From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:42 AM To: Khangelani Gama; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem On 06/09/2014 11:15 AM

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Khangelani Gama
-Original Message- From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:42 AM To: Khangelani Gama; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem On 06/09/2014 11:15 AM, Khangelani Gama wrote: > This is the stan

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 06/09/2014 11:15 AM, Khangelani Gama wrote: This is the standby replication setting with archive_command sending the WALs from master to standby. What are the conf settings on the standby server? -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@aklaver.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-g

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, June 09, 2014 08:05:41 PM Khangelani Gama wrote: > Hi All > > I would like to re-post the problem we have. The secondary server ran out > the disc space due the replication problem (Connection Time out). The secondary server would not (could not) run out of drive space due to a proble

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Khangelani Gama
This is the standby replication setting with archive_command sending the WALs from master to standby. -Original Message- From: Khangelani Gama [mailto:kg...@argility.com] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 8:06 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: pg_standby replication problem Hi All

[GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Khangelani Gama
Hi All I would like to re-post the problem we have. The secondary server ran out the disc space due the replication problem (Connection Time out).Since there was a Connection time out Problem in the primary server, how can I make disc space in the secondary server for the replication to continue f

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Khangelani Gama
-Original Message- From: Khangelani Gama [mailto:kg...@argility.com] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 5:26 PM To: 'Alan Hodgson'; 'pgsql-general@postgresql.org' Subject: RE: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem I just saw got this from the primary server (/tmp/ru

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Khangelani Gama
I just saw got this from the primary server (/tmp/run_replication.sh.out), secondary server's IP 10.58.101.10. replication started: Sun Jun 8 00:05:26 SAST 2014 source: pg_xlog/00054BAF00AF, dest: 00054BAF00AF replication finished: Sun Jun 8 00:05:33 SAST 2014 replicati

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Khangelani Gama
-Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Alan Hodgson Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 4:51 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem On Monday, June 09, 2014 04:28:53 PM

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, June 09, 2014 04:28:53 PM Khangelani Gama wrote: > Please help me with this, my secondary server shows a replication problem. > It stopped at the file called *00054BAF00AF …*then from here > primary server kept on sending walfiles, until the walfiles used up the > disc space

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 06/09/2014 07:28 AM, Khangelani Gama wrote: Please please help Before anyone can help you will need to provide more information on what your archiving, replication setup is. To begin: 1)Are you doing both archiving and streaming replication? 2) What are the settings in the configuration

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Khangelani Gama
Please please help *From:* Khangelani Gama [mailto:kg...@argility.com] *Sent:* Monday, June 09, 2014 1:42 PM *To:* pgsql-general@postgresql.org *Subject:* pg_standby replication problem Please help me with this, my secondary server shows a replication problem. It stopped at the file called

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Khangelani Gama
The big question we can’t answer is that when the replication was at this point (*Command for restore: cp "/pgsql2/walfiles/00054BAF00B0" "pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG"* ) , it then started to say WAL file not present yet. We can’t find this *00054BAF00B0 *file any where* . * *

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Khangelani Gama
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 57G 15G 39G 28% / /dev/mapper/vg0-pgsql2 5.4T 5.3T 0 100% /pgsql2 /dev/sda1 99M 12M 83M 13% /boot tmpfs 30G 0 30G 0% /dev/shm *Disc spac

[GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Khangelani Gama
Please help me with this, my secondary server shows a replication problem. It stopped at the file called *00054BAF00AF** …*then from here primary server kept on sending walfiles, until the walfiles used up the disc space in the data directory. How do I fix this problem. It’s postgres 9.

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby: How to check in which state the server is currently?

2011-12-06 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 05.12.2011 17:02, schrieb Cédric Villemain: > Le 5 décembre 2011 12:16, Frank Lanitz a écrit : >> Hi list, >> >> We had in past from time to time the issue, that the standby server is >> stopping recovering, creating a new timeline and become up and running. >> In parallel to check for the reas

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby: How to check in which state the server is currently?

2011-12-05 Thread Cédric Villemain
Le 5 décembre 2011 12:16, Frank Lanitz a écrit : > Hi list, > > We had in past from time to time the issue, that the standby server is > stopping recovering, creating a new timeline and become up and running. > In parallel to check for the reasons of this behavior we are looking for > a clean way

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby: How to check in which state the server is currently?

2011-12-05 Thread Ray Stell
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 12:16:29PM +0100, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Hi list, > > We had in past from time to time the issue, that the standby server is > stopping recovering, creating a new timeline and become up and running. > In parallel to check for the reasons of this behavior we are looking for >

[GENERAL] pg_standby: How to check in which state the server is currently?

2011-12-05 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi list, We had in past from time to time the issue, that the standby server is stopping recovering, creating a new timeline and become up and running. In parallel to check for the reasons of this behavior we are looking for a clean way to check whether warm standby database is still in recovering

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby for postgresql8.2

2011-11-23 Thread khizer
Hi Robert, Thanks for ur views, I got an advice from a DB professional Raghavendra Rao as below it worked From your contrib/pg_standby location you need to first set the path for pg_config and do ./configure or directly make, make install. This will create pg_standby executable in pos

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby for postgresql8.2

2011-11-22 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:09 AM, khizer wrote: > Hi, > >    May i know how to install pg_standby for postgresql8.2 in ubuntu 10.10 >  OS > I copied the pg_standby folder for compilation which has the files > pg_standby.c, Makefile > > initially i tried with make, make install inside contrip/pg_sta

[GENERAL] pg_standby for postgresql8.2

2011-11-22 Thread khizer
Hi, May i know how to install pg_standby for postgresql8.2 in ubuntu 10.10 OS I copied the pg_standby folder for compilation which has the files pg_standby.c, Makefile initially i tried with make, make install inside contrip/pg_standby folder but i got an err Makefile.global no such fil

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby logging issues

2010-12-08 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 16:19 -0800, Greg Swisher wrote: > Anything more elegant out there? http://projects.2ndquadrant.com/2warm -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/books/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pg

[GENERAL] pg_standby logging issues

2010-12-07 Thread Greg Swisher
Hi, I am using pg_standby in the recovery_command of recover.conf, and with the ­d option I am getting an entry every few seconds when it checks for the trigger and WAL files. If I leave out the ­d option, I seem to get nothing. What messages should I see without the ­d option? ( I want to try

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-27 Thread Rikard Bosnjakovic
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 14:19, akp geek wrote: [...] > TypeError: iteration over non-sequence > I am not able to interpret any thing from the above message. Can you please > give me some thoughts I can't say anything about the application itself, but the cryptic message means that the variable

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-27 Thread akp geek
When I execute the command cmd_archiver -I I am getting the following response Traceback (most recent call last): File "/export/home/postgres/8.4/pitrtools/cmd_archiver", line 56, in ? config.read(configfile) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 262, in read for filename in

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-25 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 17:24 -0500, akp geek wrote: > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/postgres/archive/ > 10.100.101.150' Did you see this message? -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE Command Prompt - http://www.CommandPrompt.com devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linu

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 17:24 -0500, akp geek wrote: > I have been trying to use the PITR tools , I am running into the > following issue. I don't know how to resolve it. can you please help? > I tried to search the online blogs, I did not find much for the error. > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file o

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-25 Thread akp geek
I have been trying to use the PITR tools , I am running into the following issue. I don't know how to resolve it. can you please help? I tried to search the online blogs, I did not find much for the error. NOTICE: check_config_func() NOTICE: Performing standard archive NOTICE: archive_func() NOTIC

Re: [GENERAL] PG_STANDBY ISSUE

2009-11-23 Thread Greg Smith
akp geek wrote: One small doubt I have is , do we have to keep the backup_label on the standby, I deleted it before I start the restore process , it still worked .. Just curious The backup label is strictly for you to read, to help make sure you got all of the archived segments necessary for t

Re: [GENERAL] PG_STANDBY ISSUE

2009-11-23 Thread akp geek
Thanks a lot Richard. The culprit in my case is the restore command , I modified it as follows per your instructions , it is fine now restore_command = 'pg_standby -d -s 5 -t /tmp/pg_standby.trigger.5432 /opt/postgres/archive %f %p %r 2>>/tmp/standby.log' One small doubt I have is , do we have

Re: [GENERAL] PG_STANDBY ISSUE

2009-11-23 Thread Richard Huxton
akp geek wrote: > Hi experts - > > I am running into issue with pg_standby. May be my > understanding is not correct. Please help. here is what I did . > > >1. I made changes in the postgresql.conf ( archive_mode = on >,archive_command = 'cp -i %p /opt/postgres/archi

[GENERAL] PG_STANDBY ISSUE

2009-11-20 Thread akp geek
Hi experts - I am running into issue with pg_standby. May be my understanding is not correct. Please help. here is what I did . 1. I made changes in the postgresql.conf ( archive_mode = on ,archive_command = 'cp -i %p /opt/postgres/archive/%f' , archive_timeout = 60

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 12:14 -0500, akp geek wrote: > Thanks for the response . I was not able to get back on this.. Our set > up is Solaris. will be there any thing that I can use on Solaris They should work on Solaris. It is just Python + Utilities you can already get (like rsync and ssh). > >

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-20 Thread akp geek
Thanks for the response . I was not able to get back on this.. Our set up is Solaris. will be there any thing that I can use on Solaris Regards On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:46 -0500, akp geek wrote: >> Hi All - >> >>               I would lik

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:46 -0500, akp geek wrote: > Hi All - > > I would like to know if any one has instructions on how > to setup pg_standby, if so can you please share? If you are on a *nix platform, I would suggest PITRTools which utilizes pg_standby but gives you a more comple

[GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-18 Thread akp geek
Hi All - I would like to know if any one has instructions on how to setup pg_standby, if so can you please share? Thanks for the help Regards -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mail

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby error - can't find 00000001.history

2009-03-12 Thread Eric Soroos
2) What file is not found? It sorta looks like the pg_standby binary, but I'm not sure that I believe that. Permissions problems on some containing directory, perhaps? It's the same directory as the postgresql binaries, and they all have sane permissions. (root:root, 755). Ls finds it,

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby error - can't find 00000001.history

2009-03-12 Thread Tom Lane
Eric Soroos writes: > 2009-03-12 13:40:18 PDT LOG: starting archive recovery > 2009-03-12 13:40:18 PDT LOG: restore_command = "/usr/lib/postgresql/ > 8.2/bin/pg_standby -l -d -k 100 -r 2 -s 2 -w 0 -t /tmp/pgsql.trigger. > 5432 /data/pg/repl-db3 %f %p 2>> standby.log" > 2009-03-12 13:40:18 PDT

[GENERAL] pg_standby error - can't find 00000001.history

2009-03-12 Thread Eric Soroos
Hi, I'm setting up a replacement standby server. I've had this working before until the old standby server lost a drive array and a motherboard. So, my process was working. On the other hand, the old slave was debian etch, with a backported 8.2 release, and the new one is ubuntu 8.04.

[GENERAL] pg_standby and read only filesystems

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Laughlin
Are there any known issues with pg_standby in linking mode with the WAL source on a read only filesystem?Everything works as expected until I touch the trigger file. When it is in copy mode everything works perfectly. LOG: archive recovery complete PANIC: could not open file "pg_xlog/0

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby stuck on a wal file size <16MB

2008-05-20 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Vlad Kosilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as Greg pointed out: my use of rsync --remove-sent-files option had > contributed to a short sized wal log file on standby. > changing master's postgres crontab to the following helped to resolve the > issue: > > # ship log

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby stuck on a wal file size <16MB

2008-05-20 Thread Vlad Kosilov
as Greg pointed out: my use of rsync --remove-sent-files option had contributed to a short sized wal log file on standby. changing master's postgres crontab to the following helped to resolve the issue: # ship logs to standby: */2 * * * * rsync -aq /wal_archive_local/ 10.10.10.12::wal_archi

[GENERAL] pg_standby gets stuck on a smaller wal file

2008-05-18 Thread Vlad Kosilov
I've been having problem with pgsql-8.2.5 master/slave warm standby replication setup where occasionally master node generates a wal file smaller then expected 16MB. pg_standby on slave gets stuck on such short files, and replication halts from that moment on. we have to do pg_start_backup/ rsy

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby stuck on a wal file size <16MB

2008-05-17 Thread Vlad Kosilov
Greg, I think you might be onto something here. your suggestion prompts to get rid off --remove-sent-files in my rsync command, and clean up wal files from master by some other means, this way even if master's rsync picks partial file on the first run, it should update and complete file once it

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby stuck on a wal file size <16MB

2008-05-17 Thread Greg Smith
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Ioannis Tambouras wrote: The archive command tests if the wal segment exists and is a file, but it does not check if the file is still being written. That's because it doesn't have to; the archive command doesn't get called until the writing is done. I don't have sourc

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby stuck on a wal file size <16MB

2008-05-17 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Vlad Kosilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is this wrong of me to expect that postgres would not make a wal file > available to archive_command unless it was completely ready to let go of > that wal file? > thats a perfectly reasonable expectation; and thats exactl

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby stuck on a wal file size <16MB

2008-05-17 Thread Vlad Kosilov
is this wrong of me to expect that postgres would not make a wal file available to archive_command unless it was completely ready to let go of that wal file? thanks, V. Ioannis Tambouras wrote: archive_command = 'test ! -f /usr/local/wal_archive_local/%f && cp %p /usr/local/wal_archive_loca

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby stuck on a wal file size <16MB

2008-05-17 Thread Vlad Kosilov
Gurjeet Singh wrote: archive_command = 'test ! -f /usr/local/wal_archive_local/%f && cp %p /usr/local/wal_archive_local/%f' archive files are then moved on master to standby every other minute: rsync -aq --remove-sent-files /usr/local/wal_archive_local/ slave::wal_archive/ slave's recovery.co

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby stuck on a wal file size <16MB

2008-05-17 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
> archive_command = 'test ! -f /usr/local/wal_archive_local/%f && cp %p > /usr/local/wal_archive_local/%f' The archive command tests if the wal segment exists and is a file, but it does not check if the file is still being written. You need to copy the file after writing has finished (it re

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby stuck on a wal file size <16MB

2008-05-17 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Vladimir Kosilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having problem with pgsql-8.2.5 master/slave warm standby > replication setup where occasionally master node generates a wal file > smaller then expected 16MB. pg_standby on slave gets stuck on such short > f

[GENERAL] pg_standby stuck on a wal file size <16MB

2008-05-17 Thread Vladimir Kosilov
I've been having problem with pgsql-8.2.5 master/slave warm standby replication setup where occasionally master node generates a wal file smaller then expected 16MB. pg_standby on slave gets stuck on such short files, and replication halts from that moment on. we have to do pg_start_backup/ rsy

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

2008-05-13 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 12:48:38 Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > Alvaro Herrera a écrit : > > someone wrote: > Can I shutdown Server B (backup/recovery postmaster) simply by > killing the postmaster and restart it back in recovery mode to > continue re-syncing where it left off? Or does s

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

2008-05-13 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Alvaro Herrera a écrit : someone wrote: Can I shutdown Server B (backup/recovery postmaster) simply by killing the postmaster and restart it back in recovery mode to continue re-syncing where it left off? Or does stopping Server B while in recovery mode require any manual re-sync steps be

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

2008-05-13 Thread Tom Lane
David Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> IIRC, it works conveniently in 8.2 and up. Just do pg_ctl stop -m fast. > Thanks, Tom. What about if the postmaster is just killed (kill pid, or > kill -9 pid) or the server/OS crashes? Will PG 8.3 in recovery mode be > able to come back up okay and r

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

2008-05-13 Thread David Wall
Thanks, Guillaume. Can anyone confirm his answer to the question below about restarting the backup postmaster? IIRC, it works conveniently in 8.2 and up. Just do pg_ctl stop -m fast. Thanks, Tom. What about if the postmaster is just killed (kill pid, or kill -9 pid) or the serve

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

2008-05-13 Thread Tom Lane
David Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, Guillaume. Can anyone confirm his answer to the question below > about restarting the backup postmaster? IIRC, it works conveniently in 8.2 and up. Just do pg_ctl stop -m fast. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-gener

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

2008-05-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
someone wrote: >>> Can I shutdown Server B (backup/recovery postmaster) simply by >>> killing the postmaster and restart it back in recovery mode to >>> continue re-syncing where it left off? Or does stopping Server B >>> while in recovery mode require any manual re-sync steps before it can

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

2008-05-13 Thread David Wall
Thanks, Guillaume. Can anyone confirm his answer to the question below about restarting the backup postmaster? It seems counter-intuitive since the backup server is only waiting for new WAL files to restore, it would seem it could be killed and restarted at any time and it should just recover

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

2008-05-13 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
David Wall a écrit : [...] During regular operations, Server A and Server B may independently need to be rebooted or postgresql restarted, etc. Is there any sync-ing between Server A and Server B I have to worry about when doing this? That is, will Server B need to know anything about the fact

[GENERAL] pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts

2008-05-12 Thread David Wall
Just wanted to see if others would confirm my impressions about running WAL archiving and pg_standby restore. Server A (Primary): Runs PG 8.3 with WAL archiving enabled. Each WAL is copied over the network to Server B. (A previous 'tar backup' of the database along with the requisite psql co

[GENERAL] pg_standby/warm standby questions

2008-04-02 Thread mikeee
Hi all - I've setup a warm standby using WAL archiving and pg_standby and it seems to be mostly working. I do have a few questions though: Here's my archive_comand and restore_command for reference (postgres_db_2 is a hosts entry in case you were wondering). archive_command = 'scp -q %p postgre

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2008-03-27 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 11:18 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 09:25 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > > Well, the definition of it working correctly is that a "restored log > > file..." message occurs. Even with archive_timeout set there could be > > various delays before that happens. We

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby for solaris x86

2008-03-07 Thread Erik Jones
On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Tonton Dede wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the bin postgresql)8.3 for solaris x86. Where can I find the pg_standby binary. Or do I really need to compile it myself pg_standby is a pg client program, i.e a separate program. So, unless the place from which you do

[GENERAL] pg_standby for solaris x86

2008-03-07 Thread Tonton Dede
Hi, I have downloaded the bin postgresql)8.3 for solaris x86. Where can I find the pg_standby binary. Or do I really need to compile it myself Kind regards, TD -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Davis
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 09:25 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > Well, the definition of it working correctly is that a "restored log > file..." message occurs. Even with archive_timeout set there could be > various delays before that happens. We have two servers and a network > involved, so the time might

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2007-09-16 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 11:38 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > I think it would be useful if pg_standby (in version 8.3 contrib) could > be observed in some way. > > Right now I use my own standby script, because every time it runs, it > touches a file in a known location. That allows me to monitor that f

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2007-09-16 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:13 -0500, Erik Jones wrote: > On Sep 13, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Jeff Davis wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:05 -0500, Erik Jones wrote: > >> If you include the -d option pg_standby will emit logging info on > >> stderr so you can tack on something like 2>> logpath/standby.

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2007-09-13 Thread Erik Jones
On Sep 13, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Jeff Davis wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:05 -0500, Erik Jones wrote: If you include the -d option pg_standby will emit logging info on stderr so you can tack on something like 2>> logpath/standby.log. What it is lacking, however, is timestamps in the output when

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:05 -0500, Erik Jones wrote: > If you include the -d option pg_standby will emit logging info on > stderr so you can tack on something like 2>> logpath/standby.log. > What it is lacking, however, is timestamps in the output when it > successfully recovers a WAL file.

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2007-09-13 Thread Erik Jones
On Sep 13, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Jeff Davis wrote: I think it would be useful if pg_standby (in version 8.3 contrib) could be observed in some way. Right now I use my own standby script, because every time it runs, it touches a file in a known location. That allows me to monitor that file, and

[GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff Davis
I think it would be useful if pg_standby (in version 8.3 contrib) could be observed in some way. Right now I use my own standby script, because every time it runs, it touches a file in a known location. That allows me to monitor that file, and if it is too stale, I know something must have gone wr

Re: [GENERAL] Pg_standby and shutting down the warm standby

2007-06-18 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 13:26 -0400, Woody Woodring wrote: > I am wondering if there is a proper procedure for shutting down the > warm_standby server (8.2.4)? I am using pg_standby as my restore script in > my testing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat recovery.conf > restore_command = 'pg_standby -m -d -

[GENERAL] Pg_standby and shutting down the warm standby

2007-06-18 Thread Woody Woodring
I am wondering if there is a proper procedure for shutting down the warm_standby server (8.2.4)? I am using pg_standby as my restore script in my testing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat recovery.conf restore_command = 'pg_standby -m -d -s 5 -w 0 -t /tmp/pgsql.trigger.5432 /usr/local2/pg_archive %f %p 2>>

[GENERAL] pg_standby + test_warm_standby: A Community Report

2007-04-16 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
After being asked to implement a warm standby server, I was pleased to happen upon Simon's pg_standby contribution. I was even more pleased to discover that it was designed to be compatible with the 8.2.x releases despite not being officially released until 8.3. I was then even more pleased

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby

2007-04-12 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Mar 29, 2:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Thomas F. O'Connell") wrote: > I see that Simon has pushed pg_standbyinto contrib for 8.3. Is there > anything that would make the current version in CVS unsuitable for use > in 8.2.x? I've done a cursory inspection of the code, but I'll admit > that I ha

[GENERAL] pg_standby: Unremovable Trigger File

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
I've been testing pg_standby as a helper application for a warm standby setup. So far, so good. When the environment is controlled and everything happens as expected, I'm able to operate a basic primary/standby setup. (This is all using 8.2.3 on Solaris x86, btw.) One thing I noticed in ear

[GENERAL] pg_standby

2007-03-29 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
I see that Simon has pushed pg_standby into contrib for 8.3. Is there anything that would make the current version in CVS unsuitable for use in 8.2.x? I've done a cursory inspection of the code, but I'll admit that I haven't looked up the interfaces used from postgres_fe.h and pg_config_manual.h to

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby testing notes

2007-01-11 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 14:20 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > I am looking into using pg_standby (v3) in a warm standby system. I'm > going to double check it, but same machine replication seemed to work > ok. When I tried to do remote server log shipping however, I had some > issues. > > Initial

[GENERAL] pg_standby testing notes

2007-01-11 Thread Merlin Moncure
I am looking into using pg_standby (v3) in a warm standby system. I'm going to double check it, but same machine replication seemed to work ok. When I tried to do remote server log shipping however, I had some issues. Initial setup and launch is working ok, my archive command is: 'test ! -f /va