Re: Slony for upgrades

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Slony for upgrades
Date: 2007-10-16 18:21:37
Message-ID: 200710161421.37924.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Tuesday 16 October 2007 01:38, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Jeff Frost wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Seems we didn't have any mention of Slony for upgrades in the migration
> > > section, so I added it:
> > >
> > > <para>
> > > It is also possible to use <productname>Slony</> to create a slave
> > > server with the updated version of <productname>PostgreSQL</>. The
> > > slave can be on the same computer or a different computer. Once it
> > > has synced up with the master server (running the older version of
> > > <productname>PostgreSQL</>), you can switch masters and make the
> > > slave the master and shut down the older database instance. Such a
> > > switch-over results in only several minutes of downtime for an upgrade.
> > > </para>
> >
> > Bruce, do you think we should say several minutes of downtime? It's been
> > my experience that the downtime is usually measurable in seconds. I
> > don't think I've ever had a switchover take more than 1 minute.
> >
> > Excellent catch and good work by the way!
>
> Thanks, changed to seconds. I thought someone told me <5 minutes a
> while ago but I might have been mistaken.

I might question the strict reference to Slony here. AIUI you could do the
same thing with Bucardo and a couple of other replication solutions as well.

--
Robert Treat
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