Re: Automatic Client Failover

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Automatic Client Failover
Date: 2008-08-05 00:23:00
Message-ID: 200808041723.02182.josh@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> Failover that actually works is not something we can provide with
> trivial changes to Postgres.

I think the proposal was for an extremely simple "works 75% of the time"
failover solution. While I can see the attraction of that, the
consequences of having failover *not* work are pretty severe.

On the other hand, we will need to deal with this for the built-in
replication project.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL
San Francisco

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