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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Manual Failover
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:07:56 -0400
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 11:03 AM Yongye Serkfem <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Engineers,
> I am facing an issue with the manual failover of the standby to the master
> role. I was able to promote the standby and got it out of recovery mode.
> How do I direct applications to point to the standby which has assumed the
> role of the current master,
>

A typical solution is a separate service which manages a virtual IP that
points to whichever DB server you choose.


> and what should I do after completing maintenance on the previous master
> to assume its original role as master?
>

pg_basebackup is guaranteed to get previous-master in sync with
now-active.  pg_rewind might also work.


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