After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, julian@xxxxxxxxxxx ("Julian Scarfe") belched out: > So all I'm looking for is a way for pgpool to shout if it detects a > failure. That could initiate the investigation of the other > criteria required for failover. _There_ lies the one change that is needed. Given that, some outside 'oracle' can be used to decide if it's appropriate to do a FAILOVER. It's quite important for this not to be deeply embedded in pgpool... -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="ntlug.org" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; http://linuxdatabases.info/info/slony.html PALINDROME spelled backwards is EMORDNILAP. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)