Re: postmaster recovery and automatic restart suppression

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Kolb\, Harald \(NSN - DE\/Munich\)" <harald(dot)kolb(at)nsn(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Czichy\, Thoralf \(NSN - FI\/Helsinki\)" <thoralf(dot)czichy(at)nsn(dot)com>
Subject: Re: postmaster recovery and automatic restart suppression
Date: 2009-06-08 13:47:38
Message-ID: 12000.1244468858@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> I think the accepted way to handle this kind of situation is called STONITH --
> "Shoot The Other Node In The Head".

Yeah, and the reason people go to the trouble of having special hardware
for that is that pure-software solutions are unreliable.

I think the proposed don't-restart flag is exceedingly ugly and will not
solve any real-world problem.

regards, tom lane

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