On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 19:31 -0400, Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67 wrote: > Hi, > > We have created a postgres database with a warm-standby in postgres 8.2 > following the document on the archive by Charles Duffy. The standby > database is in continuous recovery mode and archived logs are synced to > the standby from primary, every 10 minutes. The primary and the standby > database are running fine but we need to monitor the standby database to > check that it is up, it is getting synced every 10 minutes, and that it > is not out of sync with primary database. What would be the best way to > make these checks or what processes to check to make sure that the > archived logs from primary database are continuously getting applied on > the standby database. > > There must be other people using this set up so just need advice on how > people are monitoring the standby database. Any suggestions or help will > be highly appreciated. If you set the logging to debug2 in the postgresql.conf on the standby, it will tell you what logs are being restored as they are restored. Further pg_standby will tell you in the process list. Joshua D. Drake > > Thanks > Paramjeet Bhella > >
