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List:       solid
Subject:    Re: hot standby?
From:       Brian Slesinsky <bslesins () best ! com>
Date:       1998-01-28 17:15:16
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I got an evaluation license to try it out but haven't gotten around to it
yet.  From what I can tell, it's manual in both cases - the backup server
takes over when you give it a command, and the clients need to detect that
the primary failed and connect to the backup.

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Brian Slesinsky


On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Tom wrote:

> 
>   There are some mentions of hot standby functionality in the manual, but
> none that I can find on how it works.
> 
>   How do the keep the hot standby server synchronized?  Is it automatic?
> 
>   How do clients determine that the main server has failed and reconnect
> to the standby?  I presume that this will have to manual.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 

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