Re: Asynchronous streaming replication in postgresql

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: "Deole, Pushkar (Pushkar)" <pdeole(at)avaya(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-cluster-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-cluster-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Asynchronous streaming replication in postgresql
Date: 2015-03-13 11:03:21
Message-ID: CA+U5nMK7jWSp3tx5Ab_UMHyQ2-MxyY3Jr7PNWMAVxaQ20=AHqQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 13 March 2015 at 10:28, Deole, Pushkar (Pushkar) <pdeole(at)avaya(dot)com> wrote:
> 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 a failover in case primary goes down..

Automatic failover is OK. Automatic failback is not OK.

>> 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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