On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> wrote: > 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.
Eh... was there supposed to be some text here? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
