| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Configuring synchronous replication |
| Date: | 2010-09-20 13:08:26 |
| Message-ID: | 4C975CCA.1020404@enterprisedb.com |
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On 20/09/10 15:50, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 15:16 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> On 20/09/10 12:17, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> err... what is the difference between a timeout and stonith?
>>
>> STONITH ("Shoot The Other Node In The Head") means that the other node
>> is somehow disabled so that it won't unexpectedly come back alive. A
>> timeout means that the slave hasn't been seen for a while, but it might
>> reconnect just after the timeout has expired.
>
> You've edited my reply to change the meaning of what was a rhetorical
> question, as well as completely ignoring the main point of my reply.
>
> Please respond to the main point: Following some thought and analysis,
> AFAICS there is no sensible use case that requires standby registration.
Ok, I had completely missed your point then.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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