On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: >>> Well, as long as streaming rep is running, you can't do a smart shutdown >>> ... smart shutdown seems to treat the walreciever as a client >>> connection. At the very least, this should be in the documentation. > >> How hard is it to fix? > > I think the first question is do we *want* to fix it, or is it > appropriate behavior? > > If the master shuts down, will the slaves try to fail over to become > masters? When the master restarts, will the slaves automatically > reconnect? If these questions have the wrong answers, shutting down the > master isn't something to be done lightly, and automatically > disconnecting slaves would be a real bad idea.
I thought the scenario in question was that someone wanted to manually shut down the slave. Am I misunderstanding? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
