Hi James, I wouldn't work out the procedure myself, especially since there is a free working solution already. It's dangerous if you do it yourself and make a mistake. In our company, we rely on Patroni (https://github.com/zalando/patroni). Yes, it uses pg_rewind in the background but it does switchover and failover fast and reliably (also for high load databases), handles timelines automatically and so on. For the DCS, we use etcd, but you can choose yourself, which one you want. Cheers, Paul > On 10. Jul, 2020, at 09:18, James Sewell <james.sewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > - open connection to database > - smart shutdown master > - terminate all other connections > - wait for shutdown (archiving will finish) > > OK despite what it looked like from the code - upon testing it seems like even a fast shutdown will wait for logs to be archived *as long as progress is being made* (the same as smart). > > > The contents of this email are confidential and may be subject to legal or professional privilege and copyright. No representation is made that this email is free of viruses or other defects. If you have received this communication in error, you may not copy or distribute any part of it or otherwise disclose its contents to anyone. Please advise the sender of your incorrect receipt of this correspondence.
