How do you know that PG is in maintainence mode? I am not sure what PG's maintainence mode is and not aware of any configuration parameters that could control the IO reponse waiting time. Postgres just issues the ordinary file system read/write command and wait for the response.
Regards, Qingqing "Alex Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a question about IO timeouts: > > We are using the 3ware escalade 9500S series of cards, and we had a > drive failure this morning. Apparnetly the card waits 30 seconds for > the drive to respond, and if it doesn't, it put's the drive in a fail > state. Postgres it seems didn't wait 30 seconds before it decided > that the system was upset, and put the database in maintainence mode. > > Is there a way to increase to IO wait timeout so this doesn't happen? > > Alex Turner > netEconomist > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
