"Kolb, Harald (NSN - DE/Munich)" <harald.k...@nsn.com> wrote: >> From: ext Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] >> Mechanism should exist to support useful policy. I don't believe >> that the proposed switch has any real-world usefulness. > There are some good reasons why a switchover could be an appropriate > means in case the DB is facing troubles. It may be that the root > cause is not the DB itsself, but used resources or other things > which are going crazy and hit the DB first Would an example of this be that one drive in a RAID has gone bad and the hot spare rebuild has been triggered, leading to poor performance for a while? Is that the sort of issue where you see value? -Kevin
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