[pgpool-hackers: 4117] Re: Failover on starting up

[anirudh.goel at cern.ch]

But that’s the issue - pgpool didn’t perform a failover.

It just said this and then gave up:
2022-02-04 16:48:53: pid 9: LOG: ignoring the failover request, since we are still starting up
On 6 Feb 2022, 2:32 AM +0100, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at sraoss.co.jp>, wrote:
> But after starting up pgpool will detect that the primary went down by
> health check and perform failover anyway, no?
>
> > Thank you Tatsuo for your reply but can’t pgpool setup the other resources regardless of the primary being up and then perform the failover?
> >
> > I need this behaviour because I cannot pgpool in cluster mode due to infrastructure limitations.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Anirudh
> > On 6 Feb 2022, 1:51 AM +0100, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii at sraoss.co.jp>, wrote:
> > > > Hello
> > > >
> > > > I have a setup with 1 pgpool and 2 postgresql primary-replica nodes.
> > > >
> > > > I am testing a certain scenario - what if the pgpool goes down, then the primary goes down and then the pgpool comes back up.
> > > >
> > > > I was expecting that pgpool would perform a failover after it comes back up but instead it says this:
> > > > 2022-02-04 16:48:53: pid 9: LOG: Pgpool-II parent process has received failover request
> > > > 2022-02-04 16:48:53: pid 9: LOG: ignoring the failover request, since we are still starting up
> > > >
> > > > So my question is, is there a parameter or some way that we can tell pgpool to perform a failover if the primary is down while pgpool is starting up?
> > > >
> > > > I tried looking at the code but according to https://github.com/pgpool/pgpool2/blob/master/src/main/pgpool_main.c#L1329, I don¢t see a parameter other than processState.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a logical reason why pgpool cannot/won't perform a failover during startup?
> > >
> > > Because pgpool needs to setup various resouses including shared memory
> > > and others for managing failover.
> > >
> > > Best reagards,
> > > --
> > > Tatsuo Ishii
> > > SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
> > > English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
> > > Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp
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