Thread: Warm standby Service doesn't startup

On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:12 +0200, Al-Salami, Adel wrote:
> I have created a warm standby successfully, everything work fine also
> the applying of the archive from primary, my problem is that the
> Service under windows 2008r2 doesn't start if the standby is running
> (I get a start service timeout).
> If I use the pg_ctl start -D D:\<my data> it will succeed however the
> windows service wont start.
> Using the net start to the start the service will hang and the log
> file keeps on writing;
>
> 2011-09-06 13:52:57 CEST FATAL:  the database system is starting up
>
> Is it normal that the Warm Standby doesn't let the service to start
> under windows?
> Am not sure to go live with this standby as I cannot start the
> service.

*Warm* standby servers don't accept connections / queries, so the
message above is quite ok. If you move to PostgreSQL 9.0+, there is "hot
standby" option, which lets you run read-only queries on standby server.

Regards,
--
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Thanks alot.



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Von: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] Im Auftrag von Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. September 2011 14:40
An: Al-Salami, Adel
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Betreff: Re: [ADMIN] Warm standby Service doesn't startup

On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:12 +0200, Al-Salami, Adel wrote:
> I have created a warm standby successfully, everything work fine also
> the applying of the archive from primary, my problem is that the
> Service under windows 2008r2 doesn't start if the standby is running
> (I get a start service timeout).
> If I use the pg_ctl start -D D:\<my data> it will succeed however the
> windows service wont start.
> Using the net start to the start the service will hang and the log
> file keeps on writing;
>
> 2011-09-06 13:52:57 CEST FATAL:  the database system is starting up
>
> Is it normal that the Warm Standby doesn't let the service to start
> under windows?
> Am not sure to go live with this standby as I cannot start the
> service.

*Warm* standby servers don't accept connections / queries, so the message above is quite ok. If you move to PostgreSQL
9.0+,there is "hot standby" option, which lets you run read-only queries on standby server.
 

Regards,
--
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat
CertifiedEngineer
 
Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org  Twitter:
http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz

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