How to failover in Neon?
I created a database in Neon. The main branch has one RW compute node and one RO compute node. I wonder if there is anyway that I can switch those nodes so that I could monitor a failover process.
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harsh-harlequin•2y ago
Hi, read replicas in Neon are a little different. Failover is not really the use case, as they read data from the same storage. The primary purpose is offloading of read workloads to separate read-only compute instances. Have a look at this topic:
https://neon.tech/docs/introduction/read-replicas
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Read replicas - Neon Docs
Neon read replicas are independent read only compute instances designed to perform read operations on the same data as your read write computes. Neon read replicas do not replicate data across databas...