>>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at  6:31 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bhella
Paramjeet-PFCW67" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
 
> we need to monitor the standby database to
> check that it is up, it is getting synced every 10 minutes, and that
it
> is not out of sync with primary database. What would be the best way
to
> make these checks or what processes to check to make sure that the
> archived logs from primary database are continuously getting applied
on
> the standby database. 
 
We run pg_controldata for the warm standby to make sure that "Database
cluster state" is 'in archive recovery' and "Time of latest
checkpoint" doesn't get too stale.  We also run pg_ctl status and make
sure that it reports 'server is running'.  This can all be scripted.
 
-Kevin

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