Re: Warm-standby in 8.2

>>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at  6:31 PM, in message
<C84662912D280D4AB5C50100A100F0C503715DDA@ct11exm61.ds.mot.com>,
"Bhella
Paramjeet-PFCW67" <PBhella@Motorola.com> 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