Re: [ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-02-04 Thread Kevin Grittner
Gx wrote: > I am configuring warm-standby as documented here: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/warm-standby.html > > I am using "pg_standby", & may have it working corrrectly, but am > not sure. > > 1) The standby database never 'starts', right? > (/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 st

[ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-26 Thread Gx
Hello. I am configuring warm-standby as documented here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/warm-standby.html I am using "pg_standby", & may have it working corrrectly, but am not sure. 1) The standby database never 'starts', right? (/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start" times out; I ca

Re: [ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Gary Webster wrote: > Thanks for the informative replies. > > So, is Hot Standby the recommended way to do HA? > My application does not need to be able to do queries on the standby. Streaming replication is the recommended way to do HA, which is roughly "yes".

Re: [ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. Thanks for the informative replies. So, is Hot Standby the recommended way to do HA? My application does not need to be able to do queries on the standby. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Gary Webster wrote: > > > I am configuring w

Re: [ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Gary Webster wrote: > I am configuring warm-standby as documented here: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/warm-standby.html > > I am using "pg_standby", & may have it working corrrectly, but am not sure. > > 1)  The standby database never 'starts',

Re: [ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 09:48 -0500, Gary Webster wrote: > 1) The standby database never 'starts', right? > (/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start" times out; I can't connect to the > db to see if tables are correct). > > 2) Because of #1, I suppose I can't do a pg_dump on the standby db? Both a

[ADMIN] two questions regarding warm-standby on 8.4

2012-01-23 Thread Gary Webster
Hello. I am configuring warm-standby as documented here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/warm-standby.html I am using "pg_standby", & may have it working corrrectly, but am not sure. 1) The standby database never 'starts', right? (/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start" times out; I ca