[Pgpool-general] Can pgpool-II retry failed health checks?
Matt Solnit
msolnit at soasta.com
Fri Aug 5 04:17:26 UTC 2011
On Jul 29, 2011, at 10:37 PM, Matthew Solnit wrote:
> Hi everyone. I'm using pgpool-II 3.0.4 with PostgreSQL 9.0.2, in streaming replication mode. We've had
> a couple of cases where pgpool-II got a network timeout while performing a health check on the master
> node, and then immediately initiated failover and promoted the slave. This was a problem in our case
> because the master was actually fine -- there was just a temporary network "hiccup" that caused a timeout.
>
> Is there any way to configure pgpool-II to retry in this case? I couldn't find one in the documentation.
>
> I did see the "Unplugged Wire" thead (http://pgfoundry.org/pipermail/pgpool-general/2010-March/002589.html),
> which indicates that there was a single retry at one point, which was removed. But what I am more interested
> in is a configurable number of retries, with a configurable delay between retries.
>
> -- Matt
Hi everyone. I just wanted to try one more time to get an answer for this :-). We would really, really
like to find a solution.
-- Matt
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