On Saturday 19 June 2010 18:05:34 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 09:43 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > 4. Streaming Replication needs to detect death of master. We need > > some sort of keep-alive, here. Whether it's at the TCP level (as > > advocated by Tom Lane and others) or at the protocol level (as > > advocated by Greg Stark) is something that we have yet to decide; once > > it's decided, someone will need to do it... > > TCP involves unknowns, such as firewalls, vpn routers and ssh tunnels. I > humbly suggest we *not* be pedantic and implement something practical > and less prone to variables outside the control of Pg. And has the huge advantage of being implementable in about 5 lines of C (setsockopt + error checking). Considering what time in the release cycle this is...
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