Re: Auotmated postgres failover - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Auotmated postgres failover
Date
Msg-id 20160121221610.GP7446@crankycanuck.ca
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In response to Re: Auotmated postgres failover  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:34:18AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> the most difficult part is reliably determining that A) the master has
> crashed, and B) fencing the failed old master so it doesn't wake up and
> think its still in charge.
>

And, depending on your workload, C) that you actually want to fail over.

I've seen an awful lot of people want automatic failover who also
can't afford for the already-committed transactions on the master to
be lost.  Unless you're running synchronous, be sure you have the
workload that can actually accept lost writes.

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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