[pgpool-general: 1799] Re: There might be an error in the tutorial for streaming replication on multiple servers

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> In the referenced pgpool.conf
> (http://www.pgpool.net/pgpool-web/contrib_docs/simple_sr_setting2_3.1/pgpool.conf)
> the configuration variable failback_command is set to delete a file:
> 
> failback_command = '/bin/rm -f /var/log/pgpool/trigger/trigger_file1'
> 
> This command gets executed on pgpool-server, or not? Therefore the
> trigger file on the pgpool server gets deleted and not on the backend
> server.

Thanks for pointing it out. The failback_command has mistakes in
double ways:

- Trigger file exists on PostgreSQL server. So trying to remove it on
  the pgpool server is plain nonsense.

- PostgreSQL removes trigger file after failover event. So deleting it
  on the failback_command is a waste of CPU cycle.

In summary, failback_command should be empty in the tutorial. Will
fix.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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> Am 29.05.2013 03:27, schrieb Tatsuo Ishii:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think there might be an error in the tutorial
>>> http://www.pgpool.net/pgpool-web/contrib_docs/simple_sr_setting2_3.1/
>>>
>>> In pgpool.conf there will be deleted a file on the pgpool server
>> What do you mean? Sorry but I just couldn't follow the sentence.
>>
>>> (/var/log/pgpool/trigger/trigger_file1) but in the failover.sh script
>>> this file will be created on the backend server.
>> Sure. trigger file should be created on the backend server and because
>> of it failover.sh uses ssh.
>>
>>> Anyway I'm not able to run this configuration successfully on ubuntu
>>> 12.04 lts servers using the postgresql-9.1 and pgpool2 packages from
>>> default repositories. But that should be another thread...
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Thomas Flori
>>> Developer
>>>
>>> GermanPersonnel e-search GmbH
>>>
>