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<p>
Finding a master environment is one of the fundamental activities that
every replication replica must perform. Upon startup, the
underlying DB replication code will attempt to
locate a master. If a master cannot be found, then the
environment should initiate an election.
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How elections are held depends upon the API that you use to
implement replication. For example, if you are using the
replication framework elections are held transparently without any
input from your application's code. In this case,
DB will determine which environment is the master and which
are replicas.
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If you want to control the election process, you can declare
a specific environment to be the master. Note that for the replication framework,
it is only possible to do this at application startup.
Should the master become unavailable during run-time for any
reason, an election is held. The environment that receives
the most number of votes, wins the election and becomes the
master. A machine receives a vote because it has the most
number of log records.
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Because ties are possible when elections are held,
it is possible to influence which environment will win
the election. How you do this depends on which API you
are using. In particular, if you are writing a custom replication
layer, then there are a great many ways to manually influence
elections.
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One such mechanism is priorities. When votes are
cast during an election, both the number of log records
contained in the environment <span class="emphasis"><em>and</em></span>
the environment's priority are considered. So given two
environments with the same number of log records, votes
are cast for the environment with the higher priority.
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Therefore, if you have a machine that you prefer to
become a master in the event of an election, assign it
a high priority. Assuming that the election is held at
a time when the preferred machine has up-to-date log
records, that machine will win the election.
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To win an election:
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There cannot currently be a
master environment.
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The environment must have the most
recent log records. Part of
holding the election is
determining which environments have
the most recent log records.
This process happens
automatically; your code does
not need to involve itself in
this process.
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The environment must receive the most
number of votes from the
replication environments that are
participating in the election.
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If you are using the replication framework, then in the event of a
tie vote the environment with the highest priority wins
the election. If two or more environments receive the same
number of votes and have the same priority, then
the underlying replication code picks one of the
environments to
be the winner. Which winner will be picked by the
replication code is unpredictable from the
perspective of your application code.
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Start up the environment that you want
to be master as normal. At this
time it is a replica. Make
sure this environment has a higher
priority than all the other
environments.
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Allow the new environment to run for a
time as a replica. This allows
it to obtain the most recent
copies of the log files.
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Shut down the current master.
This should force an election.
Because the new environment has the
highest priority, it will win
the election, provided it has
had enough time to obtain all
the log records.
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Optionally restart the old
master environment. Because there is
currently a master environment, an
election will not be held and
the old master will now run as
a replica environment.
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