Hi, On 09/21/2010 08:05 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: > Hmm, no reason? The reason is that the alternative is that the session > would hang until a standby arrived that offered that level of service. > Why would you want that behaviour? Would you really request that option?
I think I now agree with Simon on that point. It's only an issue in multi-master replication, where continued operation would lead to a split-brain situation. With master-slave, you only need to make sure your master stays the master even if the standby crash(es) are followed by a master crash. If your cluster-ware is too clever and tries a fail-over on a slave that's quicker to come up, you get the same split-brain situation. Put another way: if you let your master continue, don't ever try a fail-over after a full-cluster crash. Regards Markus Wanner -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
