From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: Mark Steben <msteben@autorevenue.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Warm Standby - log shipping
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:19:38 -0600
Message-ID: <494A7819.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D52D639EA1DC422DA3807EB17AF72239@dei26g028534>
References: <D52D639EA1DC422DA3807EB17AF72239@dei26g028534>
>>> "Mark Steben" <msteben@autorevenue.com> wrote:
> We are at postgresql 8.2.5
You really should update to 8.2.11 or consider going to 8.3.5.
http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning> We plan on using the Norfolk server not so much as a recovery
failover but
> as a replicated database
> To run reports and establish a data warehousing environment. As such
the
> plan is to run the
> Standby in recovery state for the majority of the day, then
'complete'
> recovery there, bring it
> Online, perform our reporting and data warehousing functions (in
read-only
> mode of course),
> Then bring it back into recovery mode, letting the updates catch up
for the
> next days processing.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Is this a proper usage of log shipping?
Once you complete recovery you don't have a good way back, short of
getting a new base backup. If you have space, you could stop the
replica server without leaving recovery state, do a copy of the
cluster to another directory, restart your replica, start the copied
cluster's server, complete recovery, and start running your reports.
> 3. I am currently in a state where a log got partially copied and
postgres
> cannot find a valid checkpoint to restart. What is the best way to
remedy
> this situation? Pg_resetxlog perhaps?
I'd get a fresh base backup from which to start.
-Kevin
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