[pgpool-general: 7522] Re: Recovery after failure on a single backend

[Tatsuo Ishii]

>> 2) Enable auto_failback. Unlike #1, failover completes. But after some
>> period, the backend automatically becomes online again if connection
>> to the backend becomes healthy again.
> 
> The documentation states that this option relies on streaming
> replication. We use this option in our cluster setup to automatically
> reattach backends when streaming is in sync again. I don't think it
> will work with a single backend because pgpool has no way of detecting
> that the connection is healthy again. The health checks don't seem to
> run on detached nodes.

You are right. Sorry for wrong suggestion.

Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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