Simon Riggs wrote: > On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:26 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > >> For what it's worth, this doesn't seem particularly unlikely or >> unusual to me. > > I don't know many people who shutdown both nodes of a highly available > application at the same time. If they did, I wouldn't expect them to > complain they couldn't run queries on the standby when an two obvious > and simple workarounds exist to allow them to access their data: start > the master again, or make the standby switchover, both of which are part > of standard operating procedures.
It might not be common or expected in a typical HA installation, but it would be a very strange limitation in my mind. It might well happen e.g in a standby used for reporting, or when you do PITR. > It doesn't seem very high up the list of additional features, at least. Well, it's in the patch now. I'm just asking you to not break it. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
