[ClusterLabs] OCF_HEARTBEAT_PGSQL - any good with current Postgres- ?

lejeczek peljasz at yahoo.co.uk
Fri May 5 04:08:17 EDT 2023



On 25/04/2023 14:16, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 12:32:45 +0200
> lejeczek via Users <users at clusterlabs.org> wrote:
>
>> I've been looking up and fiddling with this RA but
>> unsuccessfully so far, that I wonder - is it good for
>> current versions of pgSQLs?
> As far as I know, the pgsql agent is still supported, last commit on it happen
> in Jan 11th 2023. I don't know about its compatibility with latest PostgreSQL
> versions.
>
> I've been testing it many years ago, I just remember it was quite hard to
> setup, understand and manage from the maintenance point of view.
>
> Also, this agent is fine in a shared storage setup where it only
> start/stop/monitor the instance, without paying attention to its role (promoted
> or not).
>
It's not only that it's hard - which is purely due to 
piss-poor man page in my opinion - but it really sounds 
"expired".
Eg. man page speaks of 'recovery.conf' which - as I 
understand it - newer/current versions of pgSQL do not! even 
use... which makes one wonder.

thanks, L.



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