On 09/23/2010 10:09 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think maybe you missed Tom's point, or else you just didn't respond
> to it. If the master is wedged because it is waiting for a standby,
> then you cannot commit transactions on the master. Therefore you
> cannot update the system catalog which you must update to unwedge it.
> Failing over in that situation is potentially a huge nuisance and
> extremely undesirable.
Well, Simon is arguing that there's no need to wait for a disconnected
standby. So that's not much of an issue.
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Markus Wanner