Nicola Mauri wrote: > In this scenario the cluster manager cannot determine wether a single > instance is running or down. > I'm going to modify initscripts and use a differente approach to probe > postmasters status, but I'm not sure if this is good: > > ps ax | grep postmaster | grep /var/lib/pgsql2/data2 > ps ax | grep postmaster | grep /var/lib/pgsql/data > > What would you suggest? pg_ctl -d /var/lib/pgsql2/data2 status -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support