On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Matthias Leopold <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > i'm running a slony 1.2.21 cluster. the master postgres server has > postgres version 8.3.9 on i386 architecture. slave nodes mostly have > postgres 8.3.x, one has 8.4.x > > would it be possible to do the following: > > - stop write access to master server > > - stop all slons > > - pg_dump master database > > - shut old physical master server down > > - load the dump in a 8.4 postgres server with slony 1.2.21 on x86_64 > architecture with same network address as old physical master > > - start slons again > > - enable write access to new physical master and continue with replication
Wait what are you trying to do? Make the 8.4 machine the master? Just initiate a slony switchover and it will be the master. More detail on what you're trying to accomplish, not on how you're trying to accomplish it might help here. _______________________________________________ Slony1-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slony.info/mailman/listinfo/slony1-general
