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Re: Configuring synchronous replication

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.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: 2010-09-20T12:16:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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.

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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