[ADMIN] Fast Shutdown and Transactions

2011-06-24 Thread Alan Gutierrez
I'm implementing failover for streaming replication using HAProxy. I'm trying to implement soft failover, (or failback), that will give applications in the midst of transaction a clear indication of the state of their transaction. My question is, if you use: pg_ctl -D [DIR] stop -m fast a

[ADMIN] Parallel pg_dump on a single database

2011-06-24 Thread Bob Lunney
Is it possible (or smart!) to run multiple pg_dumps simulataneously on a single database, dumping different parts of the database to different files by using table and schema exclusion?  I'm attempting this and sometimes it works and sometimes when I check the dump files with    pg_restore -Fc