Lag in asynchronous replication

Started by Subhankar Chattopadhyayabout 9 years ago4 messagesgeneral
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#1Subhankar Chattopadhyay
subho.atg@gmail.com

hi,

in case of automated failover i want to check if slave ia 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 ?

Regards,
SUBHANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY

#2Michael Paquier
michael@paquier.xyz
In reply to: Subhankar Chattopadhyay (#1)
Re: Lag in asynchronous replication

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Subhankar Chattopadhyay
<subho.atg@gmail.com> 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.
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Michael

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#3Subhankar Chattopadhyay
subho.atg@gmail.com
In reply to: Michael Paquier (#2)
Re: Lag in asynchronous replication

Hi Michael,

Are you asking to have slave with synchronous replication?

Regards,
SUBHANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY

On 24 Mar 2017 09:33, "Michael Paquier" <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Subhankar Chattopadhyay
<subho.atg@gmail.com> 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

#4Michael Paquier
michael@paquier.xyz
In reply to: Subhankar Chattopadhyay (#3)
Re: Lag in asynchronous replication

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Subhankar Chattopadhyay
<subho.atg@gmail.com> wrote:

Are you asking to have slave with synchronous replication?

(top-posting is annoying)

No, slaves cannot do synchronous replication. I am just telling that
once you are sure that a sync state has been achieved on the master,
you have the guarantee that data gets synchronously replicated on the
standbys as long as you do *not* change synchronous_standby_names. So
there is no actual need to know what's the state of the master during
a failover to a sync standby.
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Michael

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