Ask a primary to hand off leadership to a replica.
Section: Replication and failover
Trigger coordinated failover
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Make server replicate from a primary
Turn the current node into a replica of a primary.
Inspect node role
Return whether this node is primary, replica, or sentinel and related metadata.
Partial resynchronization handshake
Replication handshake command used internally by replicas.
Wait for replicas to acknowledge writes
Block until writes reach a minimum number of replicas or timeout.
Read time of last successful save
Return the Unix timestamp of last successful save.