| From: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> |
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| To: | Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | vvoody <wxj(dot)g(dot)sh(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Have any tricks not to recreate a standby server to switch to the former primary? |
| Date: | 2011-01-06 20:17:21 |
| Message-ID: | m2zkrdg52m.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr |
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Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> From this description, it sounds like you're trying to shortcut the
> process of bringing your old primary server (server A) up-to-date with
> the currently-running server (server B). In order to bring server A
> up-to-date with B, you'll need to follow *all* the steps on that wiki
> page to set server A up as a warm standby of B, particularly the
> pg_start_backup(); rsync'ing of PGDATA over to A, etc.
See repmgr for a way to mitigate than by using 2 standby servers:
http://projects.2ndquadrant.com/repmgr
https://github.com/greg2ndQuadrant/repmgr
http://groups.google.com/group/repmgr
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support
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