Re: standby questions

From: Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Roberto Scattini <roberto(dot)scattini(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: standby questions
Date: 2008-02-09 13:20:52
Message-ID: 47ADA8B4.4060804@otg-nc.com
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 07:49 -0500, Chander Ganesan wrote:
>
>
>> Signalling components could be added to pg_standby at some point...
>>
>
> What sort of thing are you looking for?
>
> pg_standby accepts a trigger file as well as various types of signal
I didn't see anything about signals in the documentation at
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/pgstandby.html).

We use signals in shell scripts to trigger (in some cases) a WAL copy,
and in others an immediate wake-from-sleep to copy a final WAL file to
trigger a failover.

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Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
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Morrisville, NC 27560
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