When four servers (A, B, C and E where E and A replicate from each other
and A is the master for B and C) form a cluster and only three of them (A,
B and C) are configured into MaxScale, a failover operation from A to B
(making B the current master) and a restart of A causes B to lose its
master status.
The following diagram illustrates the state of the cluster at the end of
the process described above.
+----------------------+
| +---+ |
+------------+ B <-+ |
+-v-+ | +---+ | |
| E | | | |
+-^-+ | +---+ +-+-+ |
+------+ A | | C | |
| +---+ +---+ |
| |
+----------------------+
The external server E was not correctly ignored in the replication
topology generation causing both A and B to be seen as the lowest slave
nodes in the tree. From a theoretical point of view this is the correct
interpretation as there are two distinct trees and neither of them
contains any true masters.
In practice, MaxScale should treat any servers that replicate from an
external master as root level master nodes. Doing this guarantees that they
are labeled as masters if they have slaves replicating from them.
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