On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <is...@postgresql.org> wrote: >> If the "pg_ctl promote" patch will have been committed, I recommend that >> the C function should send the signal to the startup process rather than >> creating the trigger file. Because the trigger file is checked every for 5s, >> which would lengthen the failover time by an average 2.5s. > > Ok, probably I could make the function smart enough to signal or not > by looking at the PostgreSQL version. > > BTW is it possible to export following variable in xlog.c? > > static char *TriggerFile = NULL; > > That would make coding of the C function lot easier.
If you change the function so that it sends the signal or call system("pg_ctl promote"), exporting that variable seems to be unnecessary. Because pg_ctl promote can promote the server even if trigger_file is not supplied. You don't need to check whether trigger_file is set or not, in the C function. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers