Re: Sync Rep v17

Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>

From: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>

To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com>

Date: 2011-02-19T20:59:03Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 15:23, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Sorry.  I was thinking of allowing a command to alert an administrator
> when we switch standby machines, or if we can't do synchronous standby
> any longer.  I assume we put a message in the logs, and the admin could
> have a script that monitors that, but I thought a pager-like command
> would be helpful

For asynchronous notifications we already have LISTEN/NOTIFY. Perhaps
that could be used?

Regards,
Marti