On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I feel like we're getting off in the weeds, here. Obviously, the user
>> would ideally like the connection to the master to last forever, but
>> equally obviously, if the master unexpectedly reboots, they'd like the
>> slave to notice - ideally within some reasonable time period - that it
>> needs to reconnect.
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>> There's no perfect way to distinguish "the master
>> croaked" from "the network administrator unplugged the Ethernet cable
>> and is planning to plug it back in any hour now", so we'll just need
>> to pick some reasonable timeout and go with it.
Eh... was there supposed to be some text here?
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