On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Maybe. That sounds like a pretty enormous foot-gun to me, considering >> that we have no way of recovering from the situation where the standby >> gets ahead of the master. > > No, we can do that by reconstructing the standby from the backup. > > And, that situation is not a problem for users including me who prefer to > perform a failover when the master goes down.
You don't get to pick - if a backend crashes on the master, it will restart right away and come up, but the slave will now be hosed... -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
