On Thu, 29 May 2008 18:29:01 -0400 Tom Lane wrote: > Dimitri Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > While at it, would it be possible for the "simple" part of the core > > team statement to include automatic failover? > > No, I think it would be a useless expenditure of energy. Failover > includes a lot of things that are not within our purview: switching > IP addresses to point to the new server, some kind of STONITH solution > to keep the original master from coming back to life, etc. Moreover > there are already projects/products concerned with those issues.
True words. Failover is not and should not be part of PostgreSQL. But PG can help the failover solution, as example: an easy-to-use interface about the current slave status comes into my mind. Other ideas might also be possible. > It might be useful to document where to find solutions to that problem, > but we can't take it on as part of core Postgres. Ack Kind regards -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers