Re: Slave enters in recovery and promotes when WAL stream with master is cut + delay master/slave

On 2013-01-17 13:47:41 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Slave does not try anymore to reconnect to master with messages of the type:
> FATAL:  could not connect to the primary server
>
> I also noticed that there is some delay until modifications on master are
> visible on slave.

> I think that bug has been introduced by commit 7fcbf6a.
> Before splitting xlog reading as a separate facility things worked
> correctly.
> There are also no delay problems before this commit.

Heikki committed a fix for at least the promotion issue, I didn't notice
any problem with an increased delay, could you check again if you still
see it?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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