PG synchronous replication and unresponsive slave

anyone with PG Synchronous Replication knowledge, please help me with
your views on the below questions.

thanks,
Manoj

On 01/12/2012 10:12 AM, Manoj Govindassamy wrote:
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> any help on this is much appreciated.
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> thanks,
> Manoj
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> On 01/11/2012 01:50 PM, Manoj Govindassamy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a PG 9.1.2 Master <--> Slave with synchronous replication
>> setup. They are all working fine as expected. I do have a case where
>> I want to flip Master to non replication mode whenever its slave is
>> not responding. I have set replication_timeout to 5s and whenever
>> salve is not responding for for more than 5s, i see the master
>> detecting it. But, the transactions on the master is stuck till the
>> slave comes back. To get over it, I reloaded the config on master
>> with synchronous_commit = local. Further transactions on the master
>> are going thru fine with this local commits turned on.
>>
>> Here are my questions:
>>
>> 1. Transaction which was stuck right when slave going away never went
>> thru even after I reloaded master's config with local commit on. I do
>> see all new transactions on master are going thru fine, except the
>> one which was stuck initially. How to get this stuck transaction
>> complete or return with error.
>>
>> 2. Whenever there is a problem with slave, I have to manually reload
>> master's config with local commit turned on to get master go forward.
>> Is there any automated way to reload this config with local commit on
>> on slave's unresponsiveness ? tcp connection timeouts, replication
>> timeouts all detect the failures, but i want to run some corrective
>> action on these failure detection.
>>
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