On Feb 19, 2008 10:56 AM, salman <salmanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's an empty file -- doesn't have to have anything in it. The script
libra dba wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks for your response. The example shown by Charles Duffy, is quite
> impressive. Actually i built my replication based on this.
>
> But, i want to test the failover. In the example shown by Charles, mentions
> 'a trigger file' as it says:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *touch ~/pg82demo/trigger*
> **
> *This should immediately cause the slave to finish processing archived
> segments, exit recovery mode, and come up ready for use.
> *
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> what shold be the content of the trigger file. How do we cause the slave to
> finish the processing of the archived segments, exit the recovery mode and
> come up ready for use???
>
> Please help in the the FAILOVER of the primary and promoting the slave to
> the primary mode.
>
simply checks to see if the file exists, and if it does, the recovery
loop is stopped.
-salman
