[Pgpool-general] failover with slony

[Christopher Gorge Marges]

When the master in a master/slave setup goes down will pgpool
automatically switch to the slave? The documentation in slony said
that pgpool would need to be restarted.  Also since failover is not
automatic in slony, wouldn't that also prevent continuous access to
the database?

I would also like to ask what the following line in pgpoool.conf is for:

# if child_max_connections connections were received, child exits. 0
means no exit.
child_max_connections = 10

Does this mean each child process counts how many connections it
creates and after it makes 10 connections then it will exit?