[Pgpool-general] Can pgpool-II retry failed health checks?
Guillaume Lelarge
guillaume at lelarge.info
Fri Aug 5 05:54:27 UTC 2011
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 00:17 -0400, Matt Solnit wrote:
> 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.
>
That kind of configuration doesn't exist right, but could be interesting
to add to a future release.
--
Guillaume
http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info
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