On 9/09/2010 11:02 AM, Lazaro Ruben Garcia Martinez wrote:
Thank you very much for your answer, In the cluster that i said before I need
only failover.
In the documentation of postgresql I read about the Shared Disk Failover, this
tecnique avoids synchronization overhead by having only one copy of the
database. It uses a single disk array that is shared by multiple servers. If
the main database server fails, the standby server is able to mount and start
the database as though it was recovering from a database crash. This allows
rapid failover with no data loss. One disadvantage is that the standby server
should never access the shared storage while the primary server is running.
For these resons is posible to use a SAN?
Yes. See:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Shared_Storage
Setting it up isn't trivial and if you mess it up, you *WILL* get
massive data corruption. If your shared storage dies, you still lose all
your data.
Personally, I favour replication.
Anyway, added a reference to [[Shared_Storage]] for failover-only
clustering to the faq entry posted earlier.
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