Re: How to failover from Primary to Standby and Set the old Primary as a new Standby

From: Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
Cc: "ascot(dot)moss(at)gmail(dot)com" <ascot(dot)moss(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to failover from Primary to Standby and Set the old Primary as a new Standby
Date: 2013-09-19 20:34:52
Message-ID: CAOzAquKF23qCOQE44+-kJd9EPE_PN7zk1YFe3FCoz3kdvkCxRA@mail.gmail.com
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Assuming the database hasn't changed much since the failover, doing a
fsync from the new primary back to the old primary should be fairly
quick.
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Mike Nolan

On 9/19/13, Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:31 AM, ascot(dot)moss(at)gmail(dot)com
> <ascot(dot)moss(at)gmail(dot)com
>> wrote:
>
>> I use PG 9.2.4 with streaming replication. What will be the manual
>> procedure to failover from Primary to Standby and Set the old Primary as
>> a
>> new standby?
>>
>
> From what I understand, you start over by setting up the old primary as a
> new standby from scratch.
>

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