Re: [GENERA]: Postgresql-9.1.1 synchronous replication issue - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Venkat Balaji
Subject Re: [GENERA]: Postgresql-9.1.1 synchronous replication issue
Date
Msg-id CAFrxt0iona5J_wt3-Xt6j7aJWzETN312=82E1qB9aVOK6xgs-g@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: [GENERA]: Postgresql-9.1.1 synchronous replication issue  (Venkat Balaji <venkat.balaji@verse.in>)
Responses Re: [GENERA]: Postgresql-9.1.1 synchronous replication issue
List pgsql-general
Hello,

Disaster Recovery testing for Synchronous replication setup -

When the standby site is down, transactions at the production site started hanging (this is after the successful setup of synchronous replication). 

We changed synchronous_commit to 'local' to over-come this situation.

 - No transactions are hanging at the production site even when the standby is down
 - Standby is automatically getting synced when it is back up again.

Can someone let us know if there are any "-ve" effects of putting synchronous_commit='local' ?? 

I am assuming that this as good as putting "synchronous_commit=on" on an stand-alone system.

We need to get this setup live on production shortly.

Thanks
VB

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Venkat Balaji <venkat.balaji@verse.in> wrote:

This issue stays resolved !!!

The statements are no more hanging on production now :)

The suspected problem was -

Our brand new production server did not have the port 5432 open.

I had opened the port using "iptables" command and everything started working.

synchronous replication is fast and awesome.

Thanks
VB


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:21:28 pm Venkat Balaji wrote:

>
> Connection is working fine between primary and standby, ping is working
> fine and wal archive file transfer is working without any issues.
>
> I tried CREATE TABLE and CREATE DATABASE, both were hanging.
>
> Apart from regular streaming replication settings, I did the following on
> primary to enable synchronous replication -
>
> synchronous_standby_names='*'
>
> Commands started hanging after that. Is there anything else i need to do.

From here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/runtime-config-replication.html

"
synchronous_standby_names (string)
... The synchronous standby will be the first standby named in this list that is
both currently connected and streaming data in real-time (as shown by a state of
streaming in the pg_stat_replication view). Other standby servers appearing
later in this list represent potential synchronous standbys....

The name of a standby server for this purpose is the application_name setting of
the standby, as set in the primary_conninfo of the standby's walreceiver. There
is no mechanism to enforce uniqueness. In case of duplicates one of the matching
standbys will be chosen to be the synchronous standby, though exactly which one
is indeterminate. The special entry * matches any application_name, including
the default application name of walreceiver.

"

So I would check the pg_stat_replication view to see if Postgres is seeing the
standby as streaming.


>
> Thanks
> VB

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@gmail.com


pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Marti Raudsepp
Date:
Subject: Re: Database denormalization
Next
From: "Albe Laurenz"
Date:
Subject: Re: Database denormalization