> If the "pg_ctl promote" patch will have been committed, I recommend that > the C function should send the signal to the startup process rather than > creating the trigger file. Because the trigger file is checked every for 5s, > which would lengthen the failover time by an average 2.5s.
Ok, probably I could make the function smart enough to signal or not by looking at the PostgreSQL version. BTW is it possible to export following variable in xlog.c? static char *TriggerFile = NULL; That would make coding of the C function lot easier. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers