18.4.2.1 Changing a Group's Primary Member

This section explains how to change which member of a single-primary group is the primary. The function used to change a group's mode can be run on any member.

Changing which Member is Primary

Use the group_replication_set_as_primary() UDF to change which member is the primary in a single-primary group. This function has no effect if issued on a member of a multi-primary group. Only a primary member can write to the group, so if an asynchronous channel is running on that member, no switch is allowed until the asynchronous channel is stopped. Pass in the server_uuid of the member which you want to become the new primary of the group by issuing:

SELECT group_replication_set_as_primary(member_uuid);

While the action runs, you can check its progress by issuing:

SELECT event_name, work_completed, work_estimated FROM performance_schema.events_stages_current WHERE event_name LIKE "%stage/group_rpl%";
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+----------------+
| event_name                                                                       | work_completed | work_estimated |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+----------------+
| stage/group_rpl/Primary Election: Waiting for members to turn on super_read_only |              3 |              5 |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+----------------+