Xaprb » Dane Miller http://www.xaprb.com/blog Stay curious! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:58:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 MySQL Heartbeat supports PostgreSQL http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/11/06/mysql-heartbeat-supports-postgresql/ http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/11/06/mysql-heartbeat-supports-postgresql/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:19:06 +0000 Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/11/06/mysql-heartbeat-supports-postgresql/ Thanks to a patch Dane Miller submitted, MySQL Heartbeat can now be used to monitor Slony-I replication lag for PostgreSQL. It works identically: it updates a record on the master and looks for it on the slave. You just have to specify the database driver on the command-line:

mysql-heartbeat [options] --dbidriver=Pg

Most of the tools in the MySQL Toolkit are very MySQL-specific. This one just happened to be an exception, and I'm happy it's useful for more than the original purpose.

Further Reading:]]> Thanks to a patch Dane Miller submitted, MySQL Heartbeat can now be used to monitor Slony-I replication lag for PostgreSQL. It works identically: it updates a record on the master and looks for it on the slave. You just have to specify the database driver on the command-line:

mysql-heartbeat [options] --dbidriver=Pg

Most of the tools in the MySQL Toolkit are very MySQL-specific. This one just happened to be an exception, and I’m happy it’s useful for more than the original purpose.

Further Reading:

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