On Tue, 2020-11-24 at 19:54 +0530, Nikhil Shetty wrote:
> We have one Primary and three Standby Postgresql setup. Two standby in DC and one standby in DR.
>
> We have configured streaming replication.When there are a lot of write transactions
> in the master, we observed that DR lags behind the master for 5-6 hours. We initially
> thought this could be because of the slow network between DC and DR and this is normal
> but when we saw the replay_lsn and receive_lsn , they had a huge difference.
>
> DR standby was receiving the WAL's in time and there was no delay, the delay was in
> replaying the lag. Can anybody point me to where I can start with the investigation?
> DC (Master and 2 Standby) and DR(Standby) have the same setup in terms of storage
> and some database configuration parameters but DR has a little less CPU and RAM.
If there is a delay replaying WAL, the cause is probably a replication conflict.
Set "hot_standby = off" on the standby to avoid the problem totally.
If you want queries on the standby, set "max_standby_streaming_delay" to 0
to keep replication from falling behind.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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