PG_AUTOCTL GET FORMATION NUMBER-SYNC-STANDBYS(1)

💖 pg_autoctl get formation number-sync-standbys 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the pg_autoctl manual page for pg_autoctl get formation number-sync-standbys ✨ this is your girl for peeking at the number_sync_standbys setting of a formation, straight from the monitor 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pg_autoctl get formation number-sync-standbys — pg_autoctl get formation number-sync-standbys

pg_autoctl get formation number-sync-standbys — get number_sync_standbys for a formation from the monitor 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

this command prints the pg_autoctl replication settings for number sync standbys, like:

usage: pg_autoctl get formation number-sync-standbys  [ --pgdata ] [ --json ] [ --formation ]

--pgdata      path to data directory
--json        output data in the JSON format
--formation   pg_auto_failover formation

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

See also pg_autoctl show settings for the full list of replication settings 👀 (iykyk, go check that one out too).

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --pgdata — where the Postgres node being managed locally lives. Defaults to the environment variable PGDATA. Use --monitor to connect to a monitor from anywhere, rather than the monitor URI used by a local Postgres node managed with pg_autoctl 🫶
• --json — output JSON formatted data 📦
• --formation — show replication settings for given formation. Defaults to default ⭐

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• PGDATA — Postgres directory location. Can be used instead of the --pgdata option 💜
• PG_AUTOCTL_MONITOR — Postgres URI to connect to the monitor node, can be used instead of the --monitor option 🔥
• XDG_CONFIG_HOME — the pg_autoctl command stores its configuration files in the standard place XDG_CONFIG_HOME. See the XDG Base Directory Specification 🎀
• XDG_DATA_HOME — the pg_autoctl command stores its internal states files in the standard place XDG_DATA_HOME, which defaults to ~/.local/share. See the XDG Base Directory Specification 🦋

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💫 EXAMPLES 💫

$ pg_autoctl get formation number-sync-standbys
1

$ pg_autoctl get formation number-sync-standbys --json
{
    "number-sync-standbys": 1
}

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Microsoft

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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and that's the whole vibe bestie, no cap 💅 sending you off with all the love — this was pg_auto_failover version 2.2, dated Apr 07, 2025, and the manual section is PG_AUTOCTL G...SYNC-STANDBYS(1) 🫶✨ go get those sync standbys, you got this 💖