Re: Replication and Switchover

just to remind myself about the 'switchover' process ... in such a case
as the on at hand here there is no ambition to actually switch and
replicate back to the original main, but rather use replication
mechanics the 'clone' the cluster (or in your case part of it), right?

In order to 'untie' the cloned cluster you would

  1. stop the replica
  2. remove the standby.signal file from the replicas $PGDATA
  3. delete the postgresql.auto.conf  on the replica
  4. start the replica anew

... is that a fair assumption? Or is the above more or less what "SELECT
pg_promote() ;" does?

I guess #3 might not even be a hard requirement as it is being ignored
in absence of a standby.signal

On 06.06.25 16:45, Sam Stearns wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> We have 2 databases running out of a single database cluster.  We
> would like to set up replication from the existing host to a new host
> and then switchover to that new host.  One of the databases is ready
> to switchover now while the other database is going to take a bit more
> time to be ready for the switchover.
>
> We would like to switchover the database that is ready now so we can
> start performing load testing against it.  Is it possible to
> switchover one database in a cluster while not switching over the other?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam