From 0de3a6ece4e5b8975a291dbe2526b33e78abff02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleksii Kliukin <oleksii.kliukin@zalando.de>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:34:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Try to guess the postgres role before it is started by
 examinging the recovery.conf.

---
 patroni/postgresql.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/patroni/postgresql.py b/patroni/postgresql.py
index 529f5e99..f28780b0 100644
--- a/patroni/postgresql.py
+++ b/patroni/postgresql.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class Postgresql(object):
 
         self._state = 'stopped'
         self._state_lock = Lock()
-        self._role = 'replica'
+        self._role = 'replica' if os.path.exists(self.recovery_conf) else 'master'
         self._role_lock = Lock()
 
         if self.is_running():