On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Waiting might sound attractive. In practice, waiting will make all of
> your connections lock up and it will look to users as if their master
> has stopped working as well. (It has!). I can't imagine why anyone would
> ever want an option to select that; its the opposite of high
> availability. Just sounds like a serious footgun.
Nevertheless, it seems that some people do want exactly that behavior,
no matter how crazy it may seem to you. I'm not exactly sure what
we're in disagreement about, TBH. You've previously said that you
don't think standby registration is necessary, but that you don't
object to it if others want it. So it seems like this might be mostly
academic.
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