[pgpool-general: 3365] Re: Difference between Master and Primary nodes

[Tatsuo Ishii]

Probably there's something wrong with your failover script.
Please show the pgpool.conf and the failover script.

Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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> Hi PGPool list,
> 
> I'm new(ish) to both postgres and pgpool, but learning fast :)
> 
> I'm trying to setup streaming replication with pgpool, and doing automatic
> failovers etc.
> 
> I've setup a mostly working configurations (lots of docker containers), and
> a failing master will cause pgpool to promote another slave and then
> re-direct the other slaves to the new master.
> 
> However, now, when I kill a slave, and the master *isn't* the first node in
> the pool, I get failover_command called, but with the old and new master
> ids set to the first node in the pool (which isn't the master in terms of
> replication), and the old primary node id set the the second (which was the
> master).
> 
> I then end up with two master nodes, and everything replicating from the
> wrong node.
> 
> Is this a bug or a feature? I guess I'm just not clear on the difference
> between a master node and a primary node - the documentation doesn't seem
> to be very clear, especially where streaming replication is concerned.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chris
> 
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