Re: Streaming replication failover process - Pgsql 9.2

On 07/10/2016 02:19 PM, Patrick B wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There will be a network maintenance at the company where my servers are...
>
> I've got one master and one slave server, running PostgreSQL 9.2.
>
> As the network will be down, the internet won't be working as well as
> the intranet. Both servers won't be able to communicate each other. Not
> by streaming replication and wal_files too.
>
> That should take at most 10 minutes.
>
> 1. When the connection comes back, will the master and slave work as
> expected? The streaming replication should be ok?

Assuming you have wal_keep_segments set high enough to keep the master
from recycling the WAL files before the network comes up again.

>
> 2. As the master will be down, I don't wanna slave turns into a master
> by Failover. The trigger_file line on recovery.conf on the slave server
> is commented, so should be ok here right? The slave will be still a
> slave once master is down....
>
> Thanks!
> Patrick


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