Re: pg_ctl failover Re: Latches, signals, and waiting

>>>> I did s/failover/promote. Here is the updated patch.
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>>> I rebased the patch to current git master.
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>> I'm thinking about implementing a function which does a promotion for
>> the standby. It will make pgpool lot easier to control the promotion
>> since it allow to fire the promotion operation (either creating a
>> trigger file or sending a signal) via SQL, not ssh etc.
>
> I agree that having this available via SQL would be useful in a number
> of cases. pgpool or such being one, but also for example pgadmin.
>
>
>> If there's enough interest, I will propose such a function for next CF.
>
> Just as a reminder, remember that next CF means 9.2.

Ok. I will write a C user function and add to pgpool source tree. I
think it will be fairly easy to create a trigger file in the function.
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