Hi Michael, Are you asking to have slave with synchronous replication?
Regards, SUBHANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY On 24 Mar 2017 09:33, "Michael Paquier" <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Subhankar Chattopadhyay > <subho....@gmail.com> wrote: > > in case of automated failover i want to check if slave is lagging from > > master and only if it is in sync, i want to do failover. But I am > working in > > a virtual cloud environment so by that time the master VM may not be > > available to me. How can i check the lag in that case ? > > Is your environment switching dynamically to async if the lag is too > important? If not, once you have reached a sync state, the master > would wait for all transactions commits to complete on the slave, so > once the client has received a commit confirmation you have the > guarantee that the data is already flushed on the slave. In this case > you don't need to know what happens on the master. > -- > Michael >