 I'm reading about automated Postgres failover. So you can do it with a tool like repmgr... But you still have the task of notifying the application to re-connect to the new primary. Can't find any guides on how you could do that. (I use Consul for service discovery for what it's worth)  Second week of going to the gym is complete. I'll be honest I was very worried something would break while I was away 😭
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  So, what's your take on Pain of Salvation's latest album Panther? I think Restless Boy, Wait, Keen to a Fault and Icon are really strong tracks, and I haven't been a fan of Pain of Salvation until this album (though I heard them a couple times) Can someone fix Mastodon's Wikipedia page using an outdated mascot image? It's a cute picture that I commissioned from a friend but it hasn't been canonical for a very long time now
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@Gargron That moment, when you ask yourself if it was really that clever to change your nerdy hobby into a 9-5 (in reality it's a 00:00 to 23:59 if you don't take care) What if I had never started that Basic shit back in the C64er days - would i've been happy now... dunno :D Coding: you don't do it for the money or the fame - you do it just because you have to ;) :D :D :D That took much longer than I expected. Backing up the database took only slightly longer than I anticipated, transferring the backup to a new machine was quick, but restoring took a whole 5 hours.
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One downside to this whole deal is that I’m now going to sleep at 11:38am and also that I ate irregularly during the night which I am trying to avoid 😕  What if I told you that I need to schedule some downtime for mastodon.social to upgrade our database? :scremcat:
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Okay, I put up an announcement for the time. I'll repeat it here just in case. I'll begin the downtime shortly before 3am CEST (that's when this post will be 6 hours old).  @Gargron natural cave cities tho. Sinkhole cave cities that line the drop. cities inset into cliff faces
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 @Gargron original Halloween is still the Carpenter one IMO ~ https://twitter.com/ldexterldesign/status/682645682793136128 @Gargron Hallo Eugen entschuldige bitte die Frage wieso kann ich nicht immer Tröten und bekomme öfters den Fehler 401 wenn ich tröten möchte. asses tocken is invalid verstehe nicht wo der Fehler noch sein sollte. dankeschön und bleibe gesund In the next version of Mastodon, you’ll be able to continue watching or listening as you scroll away from a post
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@Gargron he mein fehler ist weg bei meinem mastodon. Wie geil ist das denn. Scheint so mal test ob alle das jetzt lesen können. Tröt Every time I return home from the gym the line from At The End Of The Earth by The Dear Hunter where he sings "Back from the grave" plays in my head except with "gym" instead of "grave"  My possibly unpopular view on documentation translations is that they are more of a liability than an asset when you don't have someone whose literal job it is to ensure those translations are always up to date. If something changes and the information becomes out of date it's worse than if you (in the worst case) had to use Google Translate on the page. But it's so difficult to say no when someone's already put their time into translating so I don't know where I'm going with this
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@Gargron I have seen so many low quality and therefore unreadable translations. I once had a client project where I had to fix machine translation from English to Finnish, but I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t even guess the meaning of all sentenges, because of wrong synonyms and/or incorrect declensions. More common language pairs may be fine with machine translation, but I think blanks/outdated parts should just display English 🤔 |
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Consul service check definitions hardcode tags... Like technically you are supposed to tag services with stuff like "primary" or "replica" to be able to filter during service discovery. You can override them with a CLI command. If repmgr has an option to execute something after automatic failover is triggered, then you could update the service tags; then the rest could be done with consul-template.
@Gargron it’s risky
Lot’s of network partition/STONITH edge cases that makes it impractical. Unless you engineer a lot around it.
@gargron did you had a look at patroni?