Re: Function to promote standby servers

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Function to promote standby servers
Date: 2018-09-21 05:27:09
Message-ID: 20180921052709.GL1338@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:59:02AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> Providing SQL access for administrative tasks seems to be a
> good thing, see ALTER SYSTEM and pg_reload_conf().
>
> In that vein, I propose a function pg_promote() to promote
> physical standby servers.

No fundamental issues from me regarding the concept of being able to
trigger a promotion remotely, so +1. Do we want this capability as well
for fallback_promote? My gut tells me no, and that we ought to drop
this option at some point in the future, still that's worth mentioning.

You may want to move PROMOTE_SIGNAL_FILE in a position where xlogfuncs.c
could use it.
--
Michael

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