Re: Switchover

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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> On Dec 27, 2023, at 10:38 PM, Rajesh Kumar <rajeshkumar(dot)dba09(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Do I have to take a downtime of few mns and stop the applications and do a switchover?
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> What happens internally when we use the command patronictl switchover? Just that the role is changed? Will it affect incoming connections?
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> On Sat, 23 Dec 2023, 23:38 Rajesh Kumar, <rajeshkumar(dot)dba09(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Any idea what prerequisite I should follow before I use the command patronictl switchover?