Re: beta3 & the open items list

On Saturday 19 June 2010 18:05:34 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 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