| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ray Stell <stellr(at)cns(dot)vt(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | A J <s5aly(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Switchover of Master and Slave roles |
| Date: | 2011-06-07 19:46:47 |
| Message-ID: | BANLkTinEcZbDJjqr_cV-ku5z8PUFgKnPRQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Ray Stell <stellr(at)cns(dot)vt(dot)edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:59:07AM -0700, A J wrote:
>> We then rely on filesystem tools (or other third party tools) to get the
>> original master in sync with the new master efficiently and then make it join as
>> slave.
>
> the doc would not be corrupted by an additional few words that stated as such:
>
> "To return to normal operation, a standby server must be recreated using
> external tools such as rsync, either on the former primary system when
> it comes up, or on a third, possibly new, system."
You need repmgr: http://www.repmgr.org/
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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