Re: Primary DB stuck becuase of unavailable standby (synchronized streaming) - please help

Sofer, Yuval <Yuval_Sofer(at)bmc(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I am using Postgres DB with stand by database, configured with streaming in
> synchronized mode (each commit on primary DB waits for commit on secondary DB).
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> Sometimes we suffer from network issues and as consequences, secondary machine
> is not available.
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> In these situations, our application is stuck and do not respond anymore, since
> no confirmation comes from the secondary Postgres (obviously… it is down or
> unavailable….).
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> Is there any parameter that I can use, to enable recovering from hanging on
> until someone of us re-establish connection to secondary DB?

Use asynchronous mode. There is no way for 'only a little bit
synchronized mode'. We are not in the mysql-world ...

Andreas
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