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
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