Re: Function to promote standby servers

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Function to promote standby servers
Date: 2018-10-04 11:26:10
Message-ID: e1f788f76240023dd5a7f9529bfa4a93edea2f77.camel@cybertec.at
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Michael Paquier wrote:
> > 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.

Good, idea; updated patch attached.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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0001-Add-pg_promote-to-promote-standby-servers-V2.patch text/x-patch 6.9 KB

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