Re: Monitoring Replication - Postgres 9.2

On 11/29/2016 6:01 PM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
>
> There is no reason you can't execute a cron job on production to a
> remote db.
>
> eg:
> contents of cron
> */5 * * * * psql -U postgres -h 123.4.56.789 -d remote_db_name -f
> /path_to/exec.sql
> ...

The OP wants to run queries on the master and the slave, and combine
them. Maybe the master could connect to the slave with dblink but I
hate relying on that.

also, the perl/python script I'm envisioning would have some error
handling, for instance, if a connection is broken, attempt to
reconnect. if the master is up and the slave is down, use NULL for the
replication_delay since it can't be evaluated. If the master is down
after connection retries, panic.

since its using persistent connections, it could execute these queries
more frequently and track min/max/average sample values over the
duration of the logging interval.

etc/etc.

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