From: Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Replication
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:59:27 +0000
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On 02/11/10 01:56, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jonathan Tripathy<jonnyt@abpni.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 01/11/10 21:10, Vick Khera wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Jonathan Tripathy<jonnyt@abpni.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>> The standby must support INSERTS and UPDATES as well (once the master has
>>>> failed)
>>>>
>>>> Are there any solutions like this? Looking on the Postgresql site, all
>>>> the
>>>> standby solutions seem to be read only..
>>> If they are RO it is only while they are replicas, not masters. Once
>>> the server is upgraded to the master role, it becomes RW.
>>>
>> So in the "Hot Standby" setup as described in
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hot-standby.html , how would I
>> automatically make the slave a master?
> I think you're looking for this:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/warm-standby-failover.html
>
What is the difference between the "Hot-Standby" and "Warm-Standby"? Is
the only different that the "Hot-Standby" standby servers are read-only,
whereas the "Warm-Standby" standbys can't be queried at all?
Thanks
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