Re: Configuring synchronous replication
Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-20T12:50:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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.
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