Re: Replication

On 02/11/10 01:56, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jonathan Tripathy<jonnyt(at)abpni(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>> On 01/11/10 21:10, Vick Khera wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Jonathan Tripathy<jonnyt(at)abpni(dot)co(dot)uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>> The standby must support INSERTS and UPDATES as well (once the master has
>>>> failed)
>>>>
>>>> Are there any solutions like this? Looking on the Postgresql site, all
>>>> the
>>>> standby solutions seem to be read only..
>>> If they are RO it is only while they are replicas, not masters. Once
>>> the server is upgraded to the master role, it becomes RW.
>>>
>> So in the "Hot Standby" setup as described in
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hot-standby.html , how would I
>> automatically make the slave a master?
> I think you're looking for this:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/warm-standby-failover.html
>
What is the difference between the "Hot-Standby" and "Warm-Standby"? Is
the only different that the "Hot-Standby" standby servers are read-only,
whereas the "Warm-Standby" standbys can't be queried at all?

Thanks