Re: Replication lag in Postgres

Thank you for the information Laurenz Albe

On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 9:13 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2024-07-12 at 20:41 +0530, Mukesh Tanuku wrote:
> > I have a question with postgres HA setup.
> > We are setting up a 2 node postgres cluster with async streaming
> replication, we want to
> > define a RPO (Recovery point objective) in case of primary failure.
> >
> > How can we best define the RPO in this setup? since it's an async
> streaming replication
> > setup there might be a chance of data loss which is proportional to the
> replication delay.
> >
> > Is there any way we can configure the delay duration, like for example
> to make sure every
> > 10 mins the standby sync has to happen with primary?
>
> When there is a delay, it is usually because replay at the standby is
> delayed.
> The WAL information is still replicated. You won't lose that information
> on
> failover; it will just make the failover take longer.
>
> Unless you have a network problem, you should never lose more than a
> fraction
> of a second.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>