[Pgpool-general] Can pgpool-II retry failed health checks?

[Matt Solnit]

On Aug 4, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:

> 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
>  http://www.dalibo.com
> 

Thanks.  That's what I thought, but it's good to have it confirmed.

-- Matt