[pgpool-hackers: 3323] Re: Speeding up failover when all of backends are down

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> Currently Pgpool-II tries to find primary node till
> search_primary_node_timeout expires even if all of the backend are
> down. This is not only a waste of time but it looks like Pgpool-II
> hangs because while searching primary node failover process is
> suspended and all of the Pgpool-II child process are in defunct state,
> thus there's no process which accepts connection requests from
> clients.
> 
> I think if all of the backnds are down, we could immediately give up
> finding primary node regardless search_primary_node_timeout and
> promptly finish the failover process. Attached is the patch to
> implement that.
> 
> Comments?

Since there was no objection, I pushed the patch to all supported
branches.

Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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