On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 19:44 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> I don't see this as needing any implementation any more complicated than
> the usual way such timeouts are handled. Note how long you've been
> trying to reach the standby. Default to -1 for forever. And if you hit
> the timeout, mark the standby as degraded and force them to do a proper
> resync when they disconnect. Once that's done, then they can re-enter
> sync rep mode again, via the same process a new node would have done so.
What I don't understand is why this isn't obvious to everyone. Greg this
is very well put and the -hackers need to start thinking like people
that actually use the database.
JD
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