Re: beta3 & the open items list

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I feel like we're getting off in the weeds, here.  Obviously, the user
> would ideally like the connection to the master to last forever, but
> equally obviously, if the master unexpectedly reboots, they'd like the
> slave to notice - ideally within some reasonable time period - that it
> needs to reconnect.



>  There's no perfect way to distinguish "the master
> croaked" from "the network administrator unplugged the Ethernet cable
> and is planning to plug it back in any hour now", so we'll just need
> to pick some reasonable timeout and go with it.



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greg