Re: Failover replication building a new master - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Failover replication building a new master
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Msg-id 32f5d09a-3989-1c68-18c2-cdf21cd7d8ad@aklaver.com
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In response to Failover replication building a new master  (Tom Loder <tom.loder@servelec-technologies.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 06/05/2018 05:43 AM, Tom Loder wrote:
> I am using Postgres 10.4, and using replication, I have managed to set up four servers, with one running as a master
andthe other three running with streaming replication from the master.
 
> 
> I have used the  command:
> psql -c "ALTER SYSTEM SET synchronous_standby_names TO  'FIRST 1(S2,S3,S4)';" so that at least one of the three slave
clustersare SYNCED to the master.
 
> 
> If I run the following command I get the following back:
> 
> SELECT pid, usename, application_name as name,state, client_addr, sent_lsn, write_lsn, flush_lsn, replay_lsn,
sync_priority,sync_state FROM pg_stat_replication;
 
> 
>    pid  | usename | name  |   state   | sent_lsn  | write_lsn | flush_lsn | replay_lsn | sync_priority | sync_state
>
-------+---------+-------+-----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------------+------------
>   26215 | replica | S3 | streaming | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000  |             2 | potential
>   26200 | replica | S4 | streaming | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000  |             3 | potential
>   26186 | replica | S2 | streaming |  0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000  |             1 | sync
> 
> When I take out my master server (S1) I setup S2 as the master using a bash script and I update the recovery.conf
fileson the other two servers to change the replication to run from S2.
 

I am not sure what is going on here as I am not that familiar with 
synchronous replication. I do think it would aid those that can help if 
you provided the contents of :

1) The Bash script

2) The recovery.conf file.

Also are there relevant log entries for S2, S3 and S4?

> I have changed the setting for synchronouse_standby_names using:
> 
> psql -c "ALTER SYSTEM SET synchronous_standby_names TO  'FIRST 1(S1,S3,S4)';" hoping that one of the remaining two or
possiblythe old master will SYNC to the new master (S2).
 
> 
> However when I check on S2 I get the following output from pg_stat_replication:
> 
> pid  | usename | name  |  state  | sent_lsn  | write_lsn | flush_lsn | replay_lsn | sync_priority | sync_state
>
------+---------+-------+---------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------------+------------
>   6418 | replica | S4 | startup | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098  |             3 | potential
>   6417 | replica | S3 | startup | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098  |             2 | potential
> 
> If I also get the original master (S1) running and set it up as a Slave this also will not "SYNC". How can I get the
standbyservers to SYNC to the new Master (S2) without doing a new BaseBackup from S2 to the other servers?
 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tom
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