Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1

From: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, adnandursun(at)asrinbilisim(dot)com(dot)tr, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1
Date: 2005-05-02 21:35:25
Message-ID: 42769D1D.9050801@opencloud.com
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect the "cluster liveness machinery" to
> notify the database server's kernel that connections to A are now dead?

No, because it's a node-level liveness test, not a machine-level
liveness. It's possible that all that happened is the node's VM crashed.
The clustering is all done in userspace.

-O

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