Re: pg_ctl failover Re: Latches, signals, and waiting

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 08:44, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
>>> I did s/failover/promote. Here is the updated patch.
>>
>> I rebased the patch to current git master.
>
> I'm thinking about implementing a function which does a promotion for
> the standby. It will make pgpool lot easier to control the promotion
> since it allow to fire the promotion operation (either creating a
> trigger file or sending a signal) via SQL, not ssh etc.

I agree that having this available via SQL would be useful in a number
of cases. pgpool or such being one, but also for example pgadmin.


> If there's enough interest, I will propose such a function for next CF.

Just as a reminder, remember that next CF means 9.2.

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