Re: Switchover

Can I take a small downtime and stop all applications and switchover or
shall I simply switchover during low traffic time?

On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, 19:55 Scott Ribe, <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com> wrote:

> In my experience:
>
> - Patroni switchover happens in a few seconds
> - If you use pgbouncer, the client connections don't get dropped. A client
> that issues a query in that brief window will get an error.
> - If your clients have retry logic, your users will never notice the
> failover.
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> Scott Ribe
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> > On Dec 27, 2023, at 10:38 PM, Rajesh Kumar <rajeshkumar(dot)dba09(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Do I have to take a downtime of few mns and stop the applications and do
> a switchover?
> >
> > What happens internally when we use the command patronictl switchover?
> Just that the role is changed? Will it affect incoming connections?
> >
> > On Sat, 23 Dec 2023, 23:38 Rajesh Kumar, <rajeshkumar(dot)dba09(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > Any idea what prerequisite I should follow before I use the command
> patronictl switchover?
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