On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Florian Pflug <fgp.phlo....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well, you either wait for master to come up again and restart, or you >> flip into normal mode and keep running queries from there. You aren't >> prevented from using the server, except by your own refusal to >> failover. > > Very true. However, that "refusal" as you put it might actually be the > most sensible thing to do in a lot of setups. Not everyone needs extreme > up-time guarantees, and for those people setting up, testing and > *continuously* exercising fail-over is just not worth the effort. > Especially since fail-over with asynchronous replication is tricky to > get right if you want to avoid data loss.
To say nothing that the replica might not be a suitable master at all. It could be running on inferior hardware or be on a separate network perhaps too slow to reach from production services. HA is not the only use case for HS or even the main one in my experience -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
