Herouth Maoz <hero...@unicell.co.il> wrote: > We are looking at a replication solution aimed at high availability. > > So we want to use PostgreSQL 9's streaming replication/hot standby. > But I seem to be missing a very basic piece of information: suppose > the primary is host1 and the secondary is host2. Suppose that when > host1 fails host2 detects that and creates the trigger file that > causes the secondary to act as primary. > > How do all clients, which have connection strings aimed at host1 know > to fail over and use host2?
You can, for instance, use pgpool as connection-pooler. pgpool can detect a failed node, can create the trigger-file and connects clients now to the other server. > > Is there a good Internet resource for reading on this? google -> pgpool, for instance. There are other solutions, heartbeat for instance (with flying service-ip's). Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
