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> On Oct 30, 2023 at 7:00 PM, Paul Förster <paul.foers...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Michael,
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> > On Oct 30, 2023, at 01:56, Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> >
> > > - Enable checksums on the previous primary.
> > - Start the previous primary to be a standby of the node you failed
> > over to.
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> That's exactly the reasoning behind my initial idea and question. Patroni
> does the switchover job for me including catching up on the latest changes,
> etc.
>
> Seems that opinions vary. Are there any hard facts?
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> The best hard facts are those generated in your environment.
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>
> It turns out that enabling checksums can take quite some time to complete,
> i.e. downtime for the application which is hard to do in a 24x7 environment.
>
> Yes. Try it first with a smaller sample.
>
> Cheers
> Paul
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