My problem at the moment is that if you can't contact the replica then the master doesn't even [expletive] start, which is just insane. I've attached a patch that fixes that in a pretty hacky way - but still has global connection objects. I don't think it's worthy of inclusion upstream until I make it more flexible. This patch also includes a command line option '-o' to sync_client which allows you to run it from the command line even if the replica isn't running and it will only attempt to connect once rather than spend 1000 seconds backing off trying to get a connection. I'm using that option in the master shutdown script - after closing down the server I run:
Thanks for the info. I actually had one of my programmers take a stab at this and he wrote in a patch that allows me to specify a time period in which the sync_client will poll the sync_server and then die after the time period has passed. He's coding in an option to let it poll indefinitely and continue logging as I write this. Although we aren't going to suggest it get added to the distribution at this point because he is leaving on a long long vacation :)
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