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From Deole, Pushkar (Pushkar)
Subject Re: Asynchronous streaming replication in postgresql
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In response to Re: Asynchronous streaming replication in postgresql  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Can you elaborate on " Bad idea to do that automatically."

In production, that has to happen automatically, isn't it? There won't be an administrator available all the time to do
afailover in case primary goes down..
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Riggs [mailto:simon@2ndQuadrant.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 3:23 PM
To: Deole, Pushkar (Pushkar)
Cc: pgsql-cluster-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-cluster-hackers] Asynchronous streaming replication in postgresql

On 12 March 2015 at 05:56, Deole, Pushkar (Pushkar) <pdeole@avaya.com> wrote:

> I am new to postgreSql and evaluating the streaming replication for my 
> use case. My use case is:
>
>
>
> 1.       Need to replicate data from primary database (master) to secondary
> database (slave) asynchronously.
>
> 2.       If master goes down, the slave should automatically be promoted to
> master.
>
> 3.       Later, when the original primary server (original master) is
> brought up again, it should obtain back its master role and the new 
> master should assume the slave again as it was with original setup.
>
>
>
> For #1, the streaming replication of postgresql is good enough.
>
> For #2, we need to create the trigger file in slave. This can be done 
> manually. How can we do this automatically?

Look at repmgr, it does what you need.

> For #3, this seems to be quite complicated. Is this possible using 
> streaming replication and if yes then how can this be achieved?

Bad idea to do that automatically.

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