2011/7/22 Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:29 AM, A J <s5aly@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Couple of months back, Josh Berkus posted an issue with promotion of the
>> standby in Streaming replication. Subject 'Standby promotion does not work'
>> in the pgsql-hackers forum.
>
> I could not find that thread.
>
>> It seemed that during failover, it was not possible to repoint the rest of
>> the slaves to the new master. Is this resolved ?
>
> No.
>
> When failover happens, basically you still need to take a fresh base backup from
> new master, copy it to the rest of standbys, change their primary_conninfo so
> that it points to new master, and restart them. But, if you always
> assign the same
> IP address to the master server by using virtual IP technique, you
> would not need
> to change primary_conninfo.
repmgr allows that, we can reaffect a Standby to a new Primary with
the command (it will find the new master and switch to it) : 'repmgr
-f /etc/repmgr/repmgr.conf standby follow'
>
> Regards,
>
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