On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:18:34 -0400
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Briefly stopping and forcibly disconnecting all clients (pgpool is very 
> handy for that) from both, the old and the new origin, usually makes 
> switchover a lot smoother and faster.

OK I'll bear that in mind for tonight's attempt :)

> Since obviously the MOVE SET happened on node 1 but wasn't able to 
> complete on node 2, you must have had some backend on node 2 that kept a 
> lock on one of the replicated tables, preventing the event to replicate. 

Looking at scrollbacks in the cold light of day revealed a telltale
sign - there was still a vacuum process running that I'd started hours
earlier and forgot about - only a vacuum analyse, but I'm sure it won't
have helped matters!

> Restarting the postmaster of node 2 or any client application accessing 
> node 2 should have been enough.

Heh, at least I'm now the wiser for this - many thanks :)

Am hoping tonight's run will be much smoother =)

Cheers,
Gavin.
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