Skip to content

Simple Pacemaker OCF Agent for two PostgreSQL servers in streaming replication

License

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

dalibo/pgsql-resource-agent

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

78 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

WARNING

After leaving in this repository for some time, the multistate agent pgsqlms has acquired its own identity! See: https://github.com/dalibo/PAF

The development effort is currently geared towards PAF and activity on pgsql-resource-agent is reduced to the minimum. We recommend you to use PAF in priority.

pgsql-resource-agent

Simple Pacemaker OCF Agent for PostgreSQL servers in streaming replication.

This resource agent is stateless (do not know what is a master or slave resource) from the Pacemaker point of view. It is very limited, simple, allowing only one failover then wait for an administrator action. It only shows Pacemaker where the master instance is located. Should a failover occurs, it will promote the slave on the designated node.

Supports PostgreSQL 9.0 and more.

Description

This agent, called pgsqlsr, suppose PostgreSQL instances are already set up for replication: one master and N standby.

It has been designed to forbid more than one failover, so only one failover could be automated. After a failover, an administrator action is required to cleanup the situation.

Because this agent is stateless, Pacemaker does not monitor slaves and has no clue about their situation. There is no logic whatsoever in case of failover. Should a failover occurs, the agent is not able to hint Pacemaker about the best standby to promote. The comportment is unpredictable.

That is why this resource agent is best used in two nodes clusters. With more than 1 standby, the administrator is in charge to make sure the best standby will be elected (using location constraints, synchronous replication, cascading, ...).

To forbid more than one failover, the resource parameter startable is set to the hostname of the promoted standby. As soon as this parameter is created and set, the only instance able to start will be the one designated there.

After a failover, you will have to:

  • rebuild your standby(s) if needed (eg. rebuild the old master as a slave)
  • start PostgreSQL on standby(s)i
  • cleanup your Pacemaker ressources, eg.: crm resource cleanup pgsqld, crm resource cleanup pgsql-ip
  • check that everything works fine
  • Allow a new automated failover: crm_resource --resource pgsqld --delete-parameter startable

Installation

Just copy the file pgsqlsr to your OCF_ROOT folder (usually /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/). Make sure the file has the executable right and its owner is the same than the other scripts there.

Configuration

This agent has been written to give to the administrator the maximum control over their PostgreSQL configuration and architecture. Thus, you are 100% responsible for the master/slave creations and their configuration. The agent will NOT edit your setup. You just have to follow these pre-requisites:

  • you must give the location of your master during your cluster setup
  • the cluster resource manager is responsible to start and stop your PostgreSQL instances.

When setting up the resource in Pacemaker, here are the available parameters you can set:

  • bindir: location of the PostgreSQL binaries (default: /usr/bin)
  • pgdata: location of the PGDATA of your instance (default: /var/lib/pgsql/data)
  • system_user: the system owner of your instance's processus (default: postgres)
  • trigger_file: the trigger file to use to promote the slave instance. This one is useful only for PostgreSQL 9.0, where pg_ctl promote does not exists.

Cluster setup example

Here is a cluster setup example, based on CentOS 5.x, using the crm command:

crm <<EOF
configure erase
configure
  # Step 1
  rsc_defaults resource-stickiness="INFINITY"
  rsc_defaults migration-threshold=5

  # Step 2
  property stonith-enabled="true"
  property no-quorum-policy="ignore"

  # Step 3
  primitive pgsql-ip ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2    \
    params ip="172.16.4.80" cidr_netmask="24" \
    op monitor interval="20s"

  # Step 4
  primitive pgsqld ocf:heartbeat:pgsqlsr                                \
    params bindir="/usr/pgsql-9.0/bin" pgdata="/var/lib/pgsql/9.0/data" \
    trigger_file="/var/lib/pgsql/9.0/data/promote"                      \
    op start timeout="120"                                              \
    op stop timeout="120"                                               \
    op monitor interval="5s"
  location prefer-pgsqld-on-srv1 pgsqld 10: srv1

  # Step 5
  colocation pgsqld_with_pgsql-ip inf: pgsql-ip pgsqld
  order ip-after-pgsqld inf: pgsqld pgsql-ip

  # Step 6
  primitive stonith_meatware stonith:meatware params hostlist="srv1 srv2"
  clone fencing stonith_meatware

  # Step 7
  commit
  show
bye
EOF

About

Simple Pacemaker OCF Agent for two PostgreSQL servers in streaming replication

Resources

License

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Packages

No packages published

Contributors 4

  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  

Languages