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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:15:44 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: Jorge Torralba <jorge.torralba@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 9.2 Observer node for streaming replication
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On 7/15/2013 8:55 AM, Jorge Torralba wrote:
> I have a master and a slave running streaming replication between the 
> two servers. I would like to setup some kind of third machine to play 
> the role of observer node to monitor the replication and do the 
> automatic fail over.  However, I can't find any documentation or 
> suggestions on such an implementation. Is it possible to do with 9.2.4 
> or will I need to rely on some sort of F5 load balancer to handle the 
> auto failover?

Depends on your OS. We do this all the time with our HAC setups and we 
don't need any kind of load balancer to pull it off.

JD


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