Re: Automatic Client Failover - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: Automatic Client Failover
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Msg-id 36e682920808041417x25aa6bcew33c8c2e5ece5e5a6@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Automatic Client Failover  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Automatic Client Failover  (daveg <daveg@sonic.net>)
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On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> When primary server fails, it would be good if the clients connected to
> the primary knew to reconnect to the standby servers automatically.

This would be a nice feature which many people I've talked to have
asked for.  In Oracle-land, it's called Transparent Application
Failover (TAF) and it gives you a lot of options, including the
ability to write your own callbacks when a failover is detected.

+1

-- 
Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
myYearbook.com


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