Re: [Postgres-xc-developers] Installation Guide

[Michael P. <mic...@gm...>]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:42 AM, West, William <ww...@uc...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying for the last week to install postgresql-xc on 2 VMs I
> have. Based on what I have read, I am setting a a GTM, coordinator and
> datanode on one VM and a coordinator and datanode on the other VM. The
> instructions are pretty straight forward for a single node and I was
> successful at getting it up an running. Now with services running on both
> nodes I am receiving this error on each node:
>
> psql: FATAL:  Coordinator cannot identify itself
>
> So, two questions. 1. Does anyone know what is causing the error? 2. I am
> guessing that in the many conf files that need to be configured, I have
> missed something. My reading of the documentation suggest that changes to
> the postgres.conf and pg_hba.conf should be enough to do the trick but I
> suspect this is wrong for more complicated layouts (clusters with 1+n
> nodes). Is there any more comprehensive documentation for all the required
> setting in the various conf files/directories for larger scale deployments?
Something incorrect with node_name perhaps? On the top of my mind, the
error you are finding means that a given Coordinator is not able to
find its own name defined by the GUC parameter in pgxc_node. The value
name of this parameter is enforced by initdb.
-- 
Michael