> they don't state in the article Thank you for pointing this out. I updated the essay to mention how long the pause took explicitly: After about a 3.5 second

> they don't state in the article Thank you for pointing this out. I updated the essay to mention how long the pause took explicitly: After about a 3.5 second pause [^13], the failover function completed smoothly! We had a new Postgres instance serving requests, and best of all, nobody noticed. [^13]: About 2.5 seconds to let active queries complete, and about 1 second for the replica to catch up