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Replication systems can break. They work working on fixing the broken db2 read replica when they accidentially nuked the primary db1 server. > db2.cluster refu
by terom 10y ago
Replication systems can break. They work working on fixing the broken db2 read replica when they accidentially nuked the primary db1 server.
> db2.cluster refuses to replicate, /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql/data is wiped to ensure a clean replication
> [...] decides to remove the directory. After a second or two he notices he ran it on db1.cluster.gitlab.com, instead of db2.cluster.gitlab.com
That ops fail on db1 wouldn't have been such an issue if they weren't in such a vulnerable position with an invalidated read replica.