On 07/21/2015 01:21 PM, William Dunn wrote:
> That's pretty cool! But the intended use of watchdog is so you can have
> multiple pgpool-II instances and failover among them
> (http://www.pgpool.net/docs/latest/pgpool-en.html#watchdog) rather than
> failure of Postgres. In the configuration described in that wiki what
> happens when the DBMS goes down but pgpool-II is fine? The watchdog
> appears to be monitoring the pgpool-II process, not the
> postgres/postmaster process.
From what I see, it has the ability to execute a command/script based
on a failed condition which could include but not be limited to a
command to fail over a standby.
JD
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