failover

How to do switchover in postgres

In this article we will explain how to do switchover manually . Switchover means, change of role between master and slave. postgres doesn’t provide any inbuilt command to do switchover . We will...

How to do failover in postgres

When you master server is crashed or inaccessible, then we can do failover and promote slave server as master. ENVIRONMENT DETAILS: PRIMARY SERVER(MASTER)= 10.20.30.40 STANDBY SERVER(SLAVE) =10.20.30....

edb efm start failed with authentication failed error on standby

PROBLEM: We have rebooted both the primary and standby postgres nodes. After the reboot , the enterprise failover manager(EFM) , was not getting started on the standby node. PRIMARY NODE – 10.20...

Trigger file validation failed. Could not start agent as standby

PROBLEM: I have received below error , while starting efm agent on standby server. [root@dbhost41 edbdata]# systemctl start edb-efm-3.9 Job for edb-efm-3.9.service failed because the control process e...

EDB failover manager (EFM) for managing streaming replication

                       EDB failover manager, popularly known as EFM is a component of EDB postgres platform, is used for handling switchover and failover (including auto failover) in postg...