Hi Aviel, you can use the 'show cluster' command to see the repmgr state before you do the 2nd failover - make sure the node1 is indeed marked as replica. After a failover the Master doesn't automatically attach to the new master - you need to point him as a slave (standby follow - if possible...) did you start the repmgrd on node1 after making it a replica of the new master? (it needs 2 daemons to decide what to promote)
Regards, - Jony On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Aviel Buskila <avie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > I have set up three nodes of postgresql 9.4 with repmgr in this way: > 1. master - node1 > 2. standby - node2 > 3. witness - node3 > > Now I have set up the replication and the witness as it says here: > https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/repmgr/blob/master/FAILOVER.rst > > Now when I do 'kill -9 $(pidof postmaster)' The witness detects that > something went wrong and fails over from node1 to node2 > But when I setup the replication now to work from node2 to node1 and I > kill the postgresql process it doesn't failover and the repmgrd log shows > the following message: > unable to determine a valid master server; waiting 10 seconds to retry... > > it seems that the witness doesn't know about the new standby server.. > > Has anyone got any idea about what am I doing wrong here? > > > Best regards, > Aviel Buskila >