Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:59:26AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Mikko Partio" <mpartio at gmail.com> writes: > > This was my original intention. I'm still quite hesitant to trust the > > fencing devices ability to quarantee that only one postmaster at a time is > > running, because of the disastrous possibility of corrupting the whole > > database. > > Making that guarantee is a fencing device's only excuse for existence. > So I think you should trust that a properly-implemented fence will do > what it's claimed to do. > > On the other side of the coin, I have little confidence in DRBD > providing the storage semantics we need (in particular guaranteeing > write ordering). So that path doesn't sound exactly risk-free either. > > regards, tom lane of course we guarantee write ordering. we (linbit, company behind drbd, paying drbd developers) operate quite a few postgres clusters in production on clusters "powered by heartbeat and DRBD". there are much more we do not operate directly ourselves. just because we happen to have a partnership with mysql does not mean we don't like postgres very much indeed :) to get an idea of what drbd does for you, please, if you are interessted, read some of the http://www.drbd.org/publications.html, maybe start with the LinuxConf 2007 pdf. cheers, -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-55 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com :