Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0 Streaming Replication Configuration

2011-02-09 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:14:05AM -0600, Ogden wrote: > Thank you for letting me know about pg_controldata. I have been playing > around with this tool. > really interesting event/failure last night for me. I started a new thread on the failure in the admin list. my streaming rep without

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0 Streaming Replication Configuration

2011-02-08 Thread Ogden
Thank you for letting me know about pg_controldata. I have been playing around with this tool. I notice on my master server I have: Latest checkpoint location: 1E3/F220 Prior checkpoint location:1E3/F120 Latest checkpoint's REDO location:1E3/F220 And on t

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0 Streaming Replication Configuration

2011-02-08 Thread Ray Stell
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 08:51:42PM -0600, Ogden wrote: > > On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Ray Stell wrote: > > > > > pg_controldata command is helpful. > > > > Archiving wal not required, but you can roll it either way. > > > > > > That is my confusion - Archiving wal does not conflict in any

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0 Streaming Replication Configuration

2011-02-08 Thread Dan Birken
If the standby server cannot pull the WAL file from the master using streaming replication, then it will attempt to pull it from the archive. If the WAL segment isn't archived (for example because you aren't using archiving), then your streaming replication is unrecoverable and you have to take a

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0 Streaming Replication Configuration

2011-02-08 Thread Ogden
On Feb 8, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Ray Stell wrote: > > pg_controldata command is helpful. > > Archiving wal not required, but you can roll it either way. > > That is my confusion - Archiving wal does not conflict in any way with streaming replication? What if streaming replication lags behind (e

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0 Streaming Replication Configuration

2011-02-08 Thread Ray Stell
pg_controldata command is helpful. Archiving wal not required, but you can roll it either way. On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:46:51PM -0600, Ogden wrote: > Hello all, > > I have set up PostgreSQL Streaming Replication and all seems to work fine > when updating records as the records are inst