Switching Roles of the Primary and Standby DNs in Shards

Function

This API is used to perform a primary/standby DN switchover for one or more shards. In a shard, only one standby node can be promoted to primary. Before calling this API:

• Learn how to authenticate this API.
• Understand the API in Using APIs.
• Obtain the required region and endpoint.

URI

• URI format

  POST https://{Endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/switch-shard

• Example

  https://gaussdb.eu-de.otc.t-systems.com/v3/0c8243400d37468bb4aed3cc94c2911d/instances/f9b5f9b296ec6808e067in14/switch-shard

• Parameter description

  Table 1 Parameter description

  Name	Mandatory	Description
  project_id	Yes	Project ID of a tenant in a region. To obtain this value, see Obtaining a Project ID.
  instance_id	Yes	DB instance ID.

Request

• Parameter description

  Table 2 Parameter description

  Name	Mandatory	Type	Description
  shards	Yes	Array	Nodes. You can switch standby DNs of multiple shards to primary DNs. The node information is the node IDs and component IDs of shards whose standby DNs are promoted to primary. For details, see Table 3.

  Table 3 shards parameter description

  Name	Mandatory	Type	Description
  node_id	Yes	String	ID of the node where the standby DN to be promoted to primary is deployed.
  component_id	Yes	String	ID of the standby DN to be promoted to primary. It contains up to 7 characters. It cannot be null, an empty string or spaces. Before verifying and using it, spaces are automatically filtered out. The value contains at least three types of the following: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and underscores (_). For details about how to obtain the component ID, see Querying the Components of a DB Instance.

Example Request

{
"shards":[ 
               { 
                      "node_id":"0bc478b4d132494a8f7b804da521b4b2no14", 
                      "component_id":"dn_6001" 
               }, 
               { 
                      "node_id":"53dee94c50574d36a0060db0a6b644f6no14", 
                      "component_id":"dn_6004" 
               } 
        ]
}

Response

• Normal response

  Table 4 Parameter description

  Name	Type	Description
  job_id	String	ID of the task for switch standby DNs of multiple shards to primary DNs.

Status Code

• Normal

  202

• Abnormal

  For details, see Status Codes.

Error Code

For details, see Error Codes.