Re: Synchronous Standalone Master Redoux

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:33:26AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] 
> > On Behalf Of Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
> 
> > Please, stop arguing on all of this: I don't think that adding an
> > option will hurt anybody (specially because the work was already done
> > by someone), we are not asking to change how the things work, we just
> > want an option to decided whether we want it to freeze on standby
> > disconnection, or if we want it to continue automatically... is that
> > asking so much?
> 
> I think this kind of decision should be done from outside utility or
> scripts.
> It would be better if from outside it can be detected that stand-by is down
> during sync replication, and send command to master to change its mode or
> change settings appropriately without stopping master.
> Putting this kind of more and more logic into replication code will make it
> more cumbersome.

We certainly would need something external to inform administrators that
the system is no longer synchronous.

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