I am using Postgres 10.4, and using replication, I have managed to set up four servers, with one running as a master and the other three running with streaming replication from the master. I have used the command: psql -c "ALTER SYSTEM SET synchronous_standby_names TO 'FIRST 1(S2,S3,S4)';" so that at least one of the three slave clusters are SYNCED to the master. If I run the following command I get the following back: SELECT pid, usename, application_name as name,state, client_addr, sent_lsn, write_lsn, flush_lsn, replay_lsn, sync_priority, sync_state FROM pg_stat_replication; pid | usename | name | state | sent_lsn | write_lsn | flush_lsn | replay_lsn | sync_priority | sync_state -------+---------+-------+-----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------------+------------ 26215 | replica | S3 | streaming | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 2 | potential 26200 | replica | S4 | streaming | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 3 | potential 26186 | replica | S2 | streaming | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 0/6000000 | 1 | sync When I take out my master server (S1) I setup S2 as the master using a bash script and I update the recovery.conf files on the other two servers to change the replication to run from S2. I have changed the setting for synchronouse_standby_names using: psql -c "ALTER SYSTEM SET synchronous_standby_names TO 'FIRST 1(S1,S3,S4)';" hoping that one of the remaining two or possibly the old master will SYNC to the new master (S2). However when I check on S2 I get the following output from pg_stat_replication: pid | usename | name | state | sent_lsn | write_lsn | flush_lsn | replay_lsn | sync_priority | sync_state ------+---------+-------+---------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------------+------------ 6418 | replica | S4 | startup | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098 | 3 | potential 6417 | replica | S3 | startup | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098 | 0/D000098 | 2 | potential If I also get the original master (S1) running and set it up as a Slave this also will not "SYNC". How can I get the standby servers to SYNC to the new Master (S2) without doing a new BaseBackup from S2 to the other servers? Thanks Tom
