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Initiates a manual failover of a high availability (HA) primary instance
to a standby instance, which becomes the primary instance. Users are
then rerouted to the new primary. For more information, see the Overview
of high availability page in the Cloud SQL documentation. If using
Legacy HA (MySQL only), this causes the instance to failover to its
failover replica instance.
This method waits—the workflow execution is paused—until the operation is
complete, fails, or times out. The default timeout value is 1800 seconds (30
minutes) and can be changed to a maximum value of 31536000 seconds (one year)
for long-running operations using the connector_params field. See the
Connectors reference.
The connector uses polling to monitor the long-running operation, which might
generate additional billable steps. For more information about retries and
long-running operations, refer to Understand connectors.
The polling policy for the long-running operation can be configured. To set the
connector-specific parameters (connector_params), refer to
Invoke a connector call.
Arguments
Parameters
instance
string
Required. Cloud SQL instance ID. This does not include the project ID.
project
string
Required. ID of the project that contains the read replica.
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