How do you know that PG is in maintainence mode?
I am not sure what PG's maintainence mode is and not aware of any
configuration parameters that could control the IO reponse waiting time.
Postgres just issues the ordinary file system read/write command and wait
for the response.
Regards,
Qingqing
"Alex Turner" <armtuk@gmail.com>
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> I have a question about IO timeouts:
>
> We are using the 3ware escalade 9500S series of cards, and we had a
> drive failure this morning. Apparnetly the card waits 30 seconds for
> the drive to respond, and if it doesn't, it put's the drive in a fail
> state. Postgres it seems didn't wait 30 seconds before it decided
> that the system was upset, and put the database in maintainence mode.
>
> Is there a way to increase to IO wait timeout so this doesn't happen?
>
> Alex Turner
> netEconomist
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