[GENERAL] master slave failover - secondary slaves

2016-01-14 Thread Steven Livingstone
Hi all, I am relatively new to Postgres but after some some work master/slave replication and failover working. I can use a trigger file to promote my first slave to a new master but where I am confused (from reading various docs) is quite how the second, third and so on slaves know there is a new

Re: [GENERAL] master slave failover - secondary slaves

2016-01-14 Thread Steven Livingstone
Thanks Andreas - that looks ideal. Steven Livingstone wrote: > Hi all, I am relatively new to Postgres but after some some work master/slave > replication and failover working. > > I can use a trigger file to promote my first slave to a new master but where I > am confused (from