Re: Failover Solution for Postgres

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: John Allgood <john(at)turbocorp(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Failover Solution for Postgres
Date: 2004-10-05 06:06:07
Message-ID: 200410050806.07961.peter_e@gmx.net
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John Allgood wrote:
> I am looking for information on postgres failover solutions.

Set up two machines with shared storage and have the machine monitor
each other with heartbeat. If you don't want to invest in shared
storage hardware, set up DRBD to replicate the file system between the
two. (I think the Red Hat cluster mentioned elsewhere amounts to the
first variant, more or less.)

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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