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From: Fernando Hevia <[email protected]>
To: Chris Lee <[email protected]>
Cc: Imran Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tayyab Fayyaz <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: repmgr cannot bring up the standby database after switchover manaully
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 15:52:06 -0300
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> I have 2 postgresql servers. One is the primary and another one is the
> standby. I am trying to setup repmgr to do the switchover manually.
> Passwordless ssh have been setup for postgres ID on both servers.
>
> I use this command "repmgr standby switchover --log-level=DEBUG
> --verbose". The standy database is able to promote to be the primary. For
> the previous primary database, it was shutdown. It was not able to bring up
> as standby by repmgr.


In a switchover the primary server is shutdown and restarted as a standby
server after the newly promoted primary (former secondary) node has been
started.
If the primary did not start, there must have been an issue since this is
not the standard behavior for a switchover command.

Have you checked the Postgres log file for the previous primary? You should
find the startup failure cause in the log.

Regards,
Fernando



El mié, 1 oct 2025 a la(s) 7:30 a.m., Chris Lee ([email protected])
escribió:

> Hi Tayyab,
>
> Thanks for your information . I also want to find out whether that is the
> default behavior,  or I am not configuring repmgr correctly.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2025, 18:12 Imran Khan, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tayyab,
>>
>>  Is this a default behavior? We have 4 nodes cluster but never had issue
>> in switchovers.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Imran
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2025, 1:10 PM Tayyab Fayyaz <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Chris,
>>>
>>> I faced this issue it will not add automatically as standby you have to
>>> add it manually.
>>>
>>> But I wrote a script which perform to add old primary as standby once
>>> it's back online.
>>>
>>> Tayyab
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2025, 3:02 pm Chris Lee, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have 2 postgresql servers. One is the primary and another one is the
>>>> standby. I am trying to setup repmgr to do the switchover manually.
>>>> Passwordless ssh have been setup for postgres ID on both servers.
>>>>
>>>> I use this command "repmgr standby switchover --log-level=DEBUG
>>>> --verbose". The standy database is able to promote to be the primary. For
>>>> the previous primary database, it was shutdown. It was not able to bring up
>>>> as standby by repmgr.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone encounter this issue before? Thanks a lot for any
>>>> suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> Here is my OS and DB versions:
>>>>
>>>> OS version: CentOS Stream release 8
>>>> Postgres DB version:  15.12
>>>> rempmgr version: 5.5.0
>>>>
>>>> Here is the repmgr conf files:
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> node_id=1  # Use 2 on standby
>>>> node_name='primary'
>>>> conninfo='host=centos804 user=repmgr dbname=repmgr password=xxx
>>>> connect_timeout=15'
>>>> use_primary_conninfo_password=true
>>>> data_directory='/var/lib/pgsql/15/data'  # Adjust for your setup
>>>> pg_bindir='/usr/pgsql-15/bin'
>>>> service_start_command = 'sudo systemctl start postgresql-15'
>>>> service_stop_command  = 'sudo systemctl stop postgresql-15'
>>>> <<<<<
>>>>
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> node_id=2  # Use 2 on standby
>>>> node_name='standby'
>>>> conninfo='host=centos803 user=repmgr dbname=repmgr password=xxx
>>>> connect_timeout=15'
>>>> use_primary_conninfo_password=true
>>>> data_directory='/var/lib/pgsql/15/data'  # Adjust for your setup
>>>> pg_bindir='/usr/pgsql-15/bin'
>>>> service_start_command = 'sudo systemctl start postgresql-15'
>>>> service_stop_command  = 'sudo systemctl stop postgresql-15'
>>>> <<<<<
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>


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