Re: postgreSQL on NAS/SAN?

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:20, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:11:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > I do recommend a a local checking like watchdog or mon, so a restart is
> > > tried before the takeover. And I'd make sure the primary machine stays
> > > down.
> >
> > This is going to sound bad to users of Open Source OSs and databases,
> > but for all work that has to go into clustering machines and making
> > databases work with them...
> > ...
>
> Which indeed is load balancing again. I thought we were talking about a
> simple failover solution. Yes, I know VMS can do that as well. :-)

How quickly do the (h/w and manpower) costs of "simple failover"
escalate?

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