Re: Replication

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

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