On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Manoj Govindassamy <manoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -- Anyway I can query the state of DB to know its status slave or master ?? > So, that i can issue write statements only after I know that the DB is the > new master now Yep. Use pg_is_in_recovery() - it's false on the master, true on slaves. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-RECOVERY-INFO-TABLE ChrisA -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general