From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Primary DB stuck becuase of unavailable standby (synchronized streaming) - please help
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:38:12 +0200
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Sofer, Yuval <Yuval_Sofer@bmc.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
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> I am using Postgres DB with stand by database, configured with streaming in
> synchronized mode (each commit on primary DB waits for commit on secondary DB).
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> Sometimes we suffer from network issues and as consequences, secondary machine
> is not available.
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> In these situations, our application is stuck and do not respond anymore, since
> no confirmation comes from the secondary Postgres (obviously… it is down or
> unavailable….).
>
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> Is there any parameter that I can use, to enable recovering from hanging on
> until someone of us re-establish connection to secondary DB?
Use asynchronous mode. There is no way for 'only a little bit
synchronized mode'. We are not in the mysql-world ...
Andreas
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