On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I feel like we're getting off in the weeds, here. Obviously, the user > would ideally like the connection to the master to last forever, but > equally obviously, if the master unexpectedly reboots, they'd like the > slave to notice - ideally within some reasonable time period - that it > needs to reconnect.
> There's no perfect way to distinguish "the master > croaked" from "the network administrator unplugged the Ethernet cable > and is planning to plug it back in any hour now", so we'll just need > to pick some reasonable timeout and go with it. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
