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<para>
&repmgr; provides functionality to set up a so-called "witness server" to
assist in determining a new master server in a failover situation with more
assist in determining a new primary server in a failover situation with more
than one standby. The witness server itself is not part of the replication
cluster, although it does contain a copy of the repmgr metadata schema
(see below).
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in the replication cluster are split over more than one location. In the event
of a loss of connectivity between locations, the presence or absence of
the witness server will decide whether a server at that location is promoted
to master; this is to prevent a "split-brain" situation where an isolated
location interprets a network outage as a failure of the (remote) master and
to primary; this is to prevent a "split-brain" situation where an isolated
location interprets a network outage as a failure of the (remote) primary and
promotes a (local) standby.
</para>
<para>