On 09/23/2010 10:09 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think maybe you missed Tom's point, or else you just didn't respond
> to it.  If the master is wedged because it is waiting for a standby,
> then you cannot commit transactions on the master.  Therefore you
> cannot update the system catalog which you must update to unwedge it.
> Failing over in that situation is potentially a huge nuisance and
> extremely undesirable.

Well, Simon is arguing that there's no need to wait for a disconnected
standby. So that's not much of an issue.

Regrads

Markus Wanner

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