Configuring Automatic failover using Replication Manager 2.0 on PostgreSQL 9.3.5

Published on Jan 13, 2015

In PostgreSQL high availability(Streaming Replication/Hot Standby), one of the thing require human interference and has no automation, that is in the event of master database crash; initiating failover procedure(trigger file creation or pg_ctl promote command) on the standby. Because in core of PostgreSQL there’s no such built-in functionality to identify a failure of master and notify the standby. Thus, we require some automated tools to take over manual failover work or we have to dive into scripting land for writing our own script to do it.