Steven Livingstone <steven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, I am relatively new to Postgres but after some some work master/slave > replication and failover working. > > I can use a trigger file to promote my first slave to a new master but where I > am confused (from reading various docs) is quite how the second, third and so > on slaves know there is a new master and point to it for replication etc. > > One place says it should be automatic (I don't find that) and another suggests > you need to reconfigure each slave to point to the new Master (and I guess > restart each). > > Can anyone clear this up? Yeah, you have to change the recovery.conf to point to the new master. Read more here: http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-3-feature-highlight-timeline-switch-of-slave-node-without-archives/ Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general