Re: Understanding PG9.0 streaming replication feature

From: Ray Stell <stellr(at)cns(dot)vt(dot)edu>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Dan Birken <dan(at)thumbtack(dot)com>, Ben Carbery <ben(dot)carbery(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Understanding PG9.0 streaming replication feature
Date: 2011-01-27 02:34:18
Message-ID: 20110127023418.GC31642@cns.vt.edu
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:18:01PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Uh, the sentence is:
>
> On systems that support the keepalive socket option, setting
> tcp_keepalives_idle, tcp_keepalives_interval and tcp_keepalives_count
> helps the primary promptly notice a broken connection.
>
> I believe there they are talking about setting those values in the
> master/primary so you see the slave has disconnected --- this is not
> related to setting in the connection string, I think.

Yep. Simon shows it the other way in his book:

"If you want a Standby to notice that the connection to the Master has
dropped, you need to set the keepalives in the primary_conninfo in the
recovery.conf"

That works, also.

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