Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: broken backup trail in case of quickly patroni switchback and forth

[Brad Nicholson]

"Zwettler Markus (OIZ)"  wrote on 2019/11/08
11:54:14 AM:

> > (please don't top post, makes the replies hard to follow)
>
> > patronictl switchover 
>
> > follow the prompts
>
> > there is also a /switchover API endpoint you can use.
>
> > Brad
>
> I wondered about your "patronictl switchover + systemd" hint. How
> would you do ("gate") this combination?


Change whatever process you are using today to shut things down to call the
patroni switchover first, check error codes, etc.

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: broken backup trail in case of quickly patroni switchback and forth

[Zwettler Markus (OIZ)]

?  "Zwettler Markus (OIZ)" 
mailto:markus.zwett...@zuerich.ch>> wrote on 
2019/11/08 11:27:00 AM:

>> From: "Zwettler Markus (OIZ)" 
>> mailto:markus.zwett...@zuerich.ch>>
>> To: Brad Nicholson mailto:br...@ca.ibm.com>>
>> Cc: Adrian Klaver 
>> mailto:adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>>, "pgsql-
>> gene...@lists.postgresql.org" 
>> mailto:pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>>
>> Date: 2019/11/08 11:27 AM
>>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] AW:  AW:  AW:  AW: AW: AW: broken backup trail
>> in case of quickly patroni switchback and forth
>>
>> How exactly? Please clarify.

> (please don't top post, makes the replies hard to follow)

> patronictl switchover 

> follow the prompts

> there is also a /switchover API endpoint you can use.

> Brad



I wondered about your "patronictl switchover + systemd" hint. How would you do 
("gate") this combination?

Markus