--- On Wed, 8/4/09, Nagaraja, Madhukar (Madhukar) <mnagaraja at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:

> 1) for controlled switchover, I am assuming I will have to
> run the move set slonik command on the master system. Should
> it be run on the slave system too ? If I have done a
> switchover from node 1 to node 2, where should I run the
> second move set script, node 2 right ? Or assuming the case
> of the network breakdown then the system might be up, but we
> need to bring the slave as master. So where should we run
> the move set slonik script.

You only need to run the scripts once, and that run against all nodes. You should specify all your nodes in the adminconinfo section of the preamble. See

http://www.slony.info/documentation/admconninfo.html

> 
> 2) in case of failover, if for some reason the master
> system is down and I want to bring the slave system up as
> master. What should we do here ? Run the failover command on
> the slave system ?
> 

Yeah use failover if all hope for the origin is lost, be sure to read notes at

http://www.slony.info/documentation/stmtfailover.html