pg_autoctl perform switchover - Perform a switchover for given formation and group
This command starts a Postgres switchover orchestration from the pg_auto_switchover monitor:
usage: pg_autoctl perform switchover [ --pgdata --formation --group ]
--pgdata path to data directory
--formation formation to target, defaults to 'default'
--group group to target, defaults to 0
The pg_auto_switchover monitor can be used to orchestrate a manual switchover, sometimes also known as a switchover. When doing so, split-brain are prevented thanks to intermediary states being used in the Finite State Machine.
The pg_autoctl perform switchover
command waits until the switchover is known complete on the monitor, or until the hard-coded 60s timeout has passed.
The switchover orchestration is done in the background by the monitor, so even if the pg_autoctl perform switchover
stops on the timeout, the switchover orchestration continues at the monitor.
See also pg_autoctl_perform_failover
, a synonym for this command.
--pgdata
Location of the Postgres node being managed locally. Defaults to the environment variable
PGDATA
. Use--monitor
to connect to a monitor from anywhere, rather than the monitor URI used by a local Postgres node managed withpg_autoctl
.
--formation
Formation to target for the operation. Defaults to
default
.
--group
Postgres group to target for the operation. Defaults to
0
, only Citus formations may have more than one group.