Tom,
> Failover that actually works is not something we can provide with
> trivial changes to Postgres.
I think the proposal was for an extremely simple "works 75% of the time"
failover solution. While I can see the attraction of that, the
consequences of having failover *not* work are pretty severe.
On the other hand, we will need to deal with this for the built-in
replication project.
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--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL
San Francisco