On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 09:43 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > 4. Streaming Replication needs to detect death of master. We need > some sort of keep-alive, here. Whether it's at the TCP level (as > advocated by Tom Lane and others) or at the protocol level (as > advocated by Greg Stark) is something that we have yet to decide; once > it's decided, someone will need to do it...
TCP involves unknowns, such as firewalls, vpn routers and ssh tunnels. I humbly suggest we *not* be pedantic and implement something practical and less prone to variables outside the control of Pg. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
