Re: Sync Rep v17

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Marti Raudsepp wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 15:23, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> > Sorry. ?I was thinking of allowing a command to alert an administrator
>> > when we switch standby machines, or if we can't do synchronous standby
>> > any longer. ?I assume we put a message in the logs, and the admin could
>> > have a script that monitors that, but I thought a pager-like command
>> > would be helpful
>>
>> For asynchronous notifications we already have LISTEN/NOTIFY. Perhaps
>> that could be used?
>
> Well, those are going to require work to notify someone externally, like
> send an email alert.
>

although, that seems the work for a monitor tool.

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