On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Subhankar Chattopadhyay <subho.atg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > in case of automated failover i want to check if slave is lagging from > master and only if it is in sync, i want to do failover. But I am working in > a virtual cloud environment so by that time the master VM may not be > available to me. How can i check the lag in that case ? Is your environment switching dynamically to async if the lag is too important? If not, once you have reached a sync state, the master would wait for all transactions commits to complete on the slave, so once the client has received a commit confirmation you have the guarantee that the data is already flushed on the slave. In this case you don't need to know what happens on the master. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general