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On 02/11/10 21:21, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk> wrote:
>> So in the "Hot Standby" setup as described in
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hot-standby.html , how would I
>> automatically make the slave a master?
> 
> If you plan to make it automatic, be absolutely 1000000% sure that
> your automated criteria for doing the switchover is really 1000000%
> accurate, else you may end up switching when you didn't really want to
> for some temporary failure condition.  I've never been able to define
> something that perfect so we still only ever do manual switchovers.