On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
> It strikes me that we really need to try reconnecting to the shared memory
> here several times, and maybe the backoff need to increase each time. On a
> loaded server this cause postgres to fail to restart fairly reliably.
At the risk of sounding predictable, +1. Maybe try 5 times, repeating
at 1, 2, 4 & 8 seconds? Any longer seems like it will be a genuine
failure (so does 8 seconds in fact, but I don't suppose it'll hurt to
try).
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Dave Page
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