> The fact that failover current does *not* terminate existing queries and > transactions was regarded as a feature by the audience, rather than a > bug, when I did demos of HS/SR. Of course, they might not have been > thinking of the delay for writes.
Probably you would hear different respose from serious users who are willing to have usable HA systems. I have number of customers who are using our HA systems (they use several technologies such as commercial HA solutions, pgpool-II and Slony-I). The one of top 3 questions I got when we propose them our HA solution is, "how long will it take to do failover when the master DB crashes?" -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers