> 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...
I think we have a consensus on that. So what's the most sensible mechanism
for the "shout". Since I posted my original question, I realized that
pgpool notes a failure of either master or slave in its log. Would we want
something more proactive?
Julian
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