>>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM, in message <C84662912D280D4AB5C50100A100F0C503715DDA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67" <PBhella@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. We run pg_controldata for the warm standby to make sure that "Database cluster state" is 'in archive recovery' and "Time of latest checkpoint" doesn't get too stale. We also run pg_ctl status and make sure that it reports 'server is running'. This can all be scripted. -Kevin
