Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oliver Jowett
Subject Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1
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Msg-id 42769D1D.9050801@opencloud.com
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In response to Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect the "cluster liveness machinery" to
> notify the database server's kernel that connections to A are now dead?

No, because it's a node-level liveness test, not a machine-level
liveness. It's possible that all that happened is the node's VM crashed.
The clustering is all done in userspace.

-O


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