Re: cluster question

Hi

Quick question. I have a 2 node cluster - each node has its own ip.

But from reading this, I really need a 3rd ip, which potentially floats
between the nodes to which ever is the master / rw node.

Is that right? Sort of makes sense I guess

A

On 14 August 2017 at 16:47, Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>
wrote:

> On 14 August 2017 08:39:54 GMT+02:00, Alex Samad <alex(at)samad(dot)com(dot)au>
> wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I have setup a streaming replicating cluster, with a hot standby.
> >
> >Now I would like to change the RW to hot standby and change the hot
> >standby
> >to be the RW server.
> >
> >Is it just a matter of updating recover.conf file ?
> >
> >Alex
>
> I would suggest you repmgr, with this tool you can do "repmgr standby
> switchover" to perform such tasks.
>
> Regards, Andreas.
>
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