From: | Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | angelflow(at)yahoo(dot)com |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Tutorials on high availability Postgresql setup? |
Date: | 2010-10-07 07:40:29 |
Message-ID: | 20101007.164029.835458634731341868.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp |
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> Is there any tutorials or detailed instructions on how to set up HA postgresql & failover? The documentation (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/warm-standby-failover.html) on this topics is pretty scarce.
>
> The scenario I'm most interested in is this:
>
> 2 servers - a master and a hot standby. All writes are sent to master, reads are split between master and hot standby.
>
> 1) If the hot standby goes down, how do I redirect reads to the master?
pgpool-II 3.0 will take care of this.
> 2) If the master fails
> -how do I automatically promote the standby to master and send all reads/writes to the new master?
This is covered by pgpool-II 3.0 as well.
> -what happens when the old master comes back up? Do I need to so anything to make it catches up to the new master?
I recommend to use it a standby. Such a configuration is possible by
using pgpool-II 3.0.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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