On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:34:18AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > the most difficult part is reliably determining that A) the master has > crashed, and B) fencing the failed old master so it doesn't wake up and > think its still in charge. >
And, depending on your workload, C) that you actually want to fail over. I've seen an awful lot of people want automatic failover who also can't afford for the already-committed transactions on the master to be lost. Unless you're running synchronous, be sure you have the workload that can actually accept lost writes. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@crankycanuck.ca -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
