[pgpool-general: 899] How can I automate actions when synchronous standby fails?
MauMau
maumau307 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 18 00:38:32 JST 2012
Hello,
I'm thinking of using pgpool-II 3.2 to automate failover in synchronous
streaming replication. Please let me ask some questions for which I
couldn't find clear answers in the pgpool-II manual.
The system consists of the following nodes:
dbnode0: DB server (initially primary server)
dbnode1: DB server (initially standby server)
appnode1...appnodeN: application servers; Java EE servers and pgpool run on
all of them
[relevant settings in pgpool.conf]
backend_hostname0 = dbnode0
backend_port0 = 5432
backend_hostname1 = dbnode1
backend_port1 = 5432
According to the current specification of synchronous streaming replication,
the applications hang when the standby goes down. To resume those hung
applications, I want to set synchronous_standby_names to '' and reload
postgresql.conf automatically when the standby stops for any reason. The
related description in the manual is:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/warm-standby.html#SYNCHRONOUS-REPLICATION
[excerpt]
If you really do lose your last standby server then you should disable
synchronous_standby_names and reload the configuration file on the primary
server.
Q1
How can I achieve this with pgpool? Is failover_command invoked when the
standby stops working?
Q2
What do the following special characters mean in failover_command
description? How does "master" differ from "primary"? In my configuration,
what values do they provide when the standby (dbnode1) goes down?
%M Old master node ID.
%P Old primary node ID.
Q3
What kind of problems could occur when many pgpool instances on the
application servers invoke failover_command simultaneously and independently
of one another? What should I do to avoid those potential problems?
Q4
I found the below sentence in pgpool manual. Does this apply even when the
standby fails? If yes, I would like to know any workaround or reason,
because I believe standby failure should not affect application processing
which is performed on the normal primary.
"When a failover is performed, pgpool kills all its child processes, which
will in turn terminate all active sessions to pgpool."
Regards
MauMau
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