On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> 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...
This sounds like a useful feature but I don't see why it's not 9.1
material. The status quo is that the expected usage pattern is manual
failover. As long as the slave responds to manual intervention when in
this state I don't think this is a blocking issue. Monitoring and
automatic failover are clearly things we plan to add features to
handle better in the future.
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greg