On 12-09-28 11:23 AM, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 9/28/2012 9:15 AM, Steve Singer wrote:
>> * we can't ignore SYNC events even though the dropped
>> * node is not an origin it might have been an old
>> * origin before a FAILOVER. Some behind node still
>> * might need to get caught up from its provider.
>
> That assessment is actually wrong. Any data provider as well as the
> origin will keep the data until all subscribers have confirmed it.
> Simply changing the data provider of the behind node will be enough to
> make it catch up from another provider.
>

But it can't get caught up if we execute/process a DROP NODE on the 
other provider first which is why the slonik_drop_node can't ignore 
non-sync events when computing the last event id to use for waiting.



>
> Jan
>

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