NAME

       DROP NODE - Remove the node from participating in the replication

SYNOPSIS

       DROP NODE (options);

DESCRIPTION

       Drop a node. This command removes the specified node entirely from the replication systems
       configuration. If the replication daemon is still running on  that  node  (and  processing
       events), it will attempt to uninstall the replication system and terminate itself.

       ID = ival
              Node  ID  of the node to remove. This may be represented either by a single node id
              or by a quoted comma separated list of nodes

       EVENT NODE = ival
              Node ID of the node to generate the event.

       This uses “schemadocdropnode(p_no_ids integer[])” [not available as a man page].

       When you invoke DROP NODE, one of the steps is to run UNINSTALL NODE.

EXAMPLE

            DROP NODE ( ID = 2, EVENT NODE = 1 );
             DROP NODE (ID='3,4,5', EVENT NODE=1);

LOCKING BEHAVIOUR

       When dropping triggers off of application tables, this will require  exclusive  access  to
       each replicated table on the node being discarded.

DANGEROUS/UNINTUITIVE BEHAVIOUR

       If  you are using connections that cache query plans (this is particularly common for Java
       application frameworks with connection pools), the connections may cache query plans  that
       include  the  pre-DROP  NODE  state  of things, and you will get error messages indicating
       missing OIDs [“[MISSING TEXT]” [not available as a man page]].

       After dropping a node, you may also need to recycle connections in your application.

       You cannot submit this to an EVENT NODE that is the number of the node being dropped;  the
       request must go to some node that will remain in the cluster.

SLONIK EVENT CONFIRMATION BEHAVIOUR

       Slonik  waits  until  nodes (other than the one being dropped) are caught up with non-SYNC
       events from all other nodes before submitting the DROP NODE command.

VERSION INFORMATION

       This command was introduced in Slony-I 1.0

       In version 2.0, the default value for EVENT NODE was removed, so a node must be specified.

       In version 2.2, support for dropping multiple nodes in a single command was introduced

                                        22 September 2023                     SLONIK DROP NODE(7)