Re: Automatic Client Failover - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Automatic Client Failover
Date
Msg-id 200808041723.02182.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Automatic Client Failover  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Automatic Client Failover  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL
San Francisco


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