Re: Fully-automatic streaming replication failover when master dies?

pgpool-II may do what you want. Lots of people use it.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dmitry Koterov <dmitry(dot)koterov(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I googled 1 hour approximately, but have not found a ready solution for
> this. So maybe this feature is in PostgreSQL todo-list, or something
> similar exists somewhere...
>
> Before the actual question, I'd like to give a small analogy. What I
> mostly love in MongoDB is that it supports a fully transparent scheme of
> replication failover. If you have >= 3 MongoDB notes (e.g. 1 master and 2
> replicas), and the master dies, in a couple of seconds a replica is
> AUTOMATICALLY elected as a new master, and all other replicas are
> AUTOMATICALLY begin to follow it. If the dead master is back again
> suddenly, it first appears as a replica, but in a couple of seconds it
> becomes a new master back (because it initially had a highest weight
> assigned), and all replicas become to follow it. All these steps are done
> automatically and transparently. It just works.
>
> So does something similar and more-or-less stable exist for PostgrSQL too?
>
> P.S.
> The links I've found already:
> - http://www.databasesoup.com - that's it, but too young and, possibly,
> not yet stable
> - repmgr: always referred at StackOverflow (thousands of times), but it
> does not provide an automatic failover :-)
> - pgpool-2: it contains a couple of config options for "failover", but in
> practice they are too poor to be used in production and with large
> databases, I believe after reading the docs
> - pacemaker's plugin: extremely complex (IMHO) overweighted for this
> purpose
> - EnterpriseDB's solutions: they are not free
>