Replicate to more than one replica?

[David Korpiewski]

> My problem at the moment is that if you can't contact the replica then the
> master doesn't even [expletive] start, which is just insane.  I've attached
> a patch that fixes that in a pretty hacky way - but still has global
> connection objects.  I don't think it's worthy of inclusion upstream until
> I make it more flexible.
> 
> This patch also includes a command line option '-o' to sync_client which
> allows you to run it from the command line even if the replica isn't running
> and it will only attempt to connect once rather than spend 1000 seconds
> backing off trying to get a connection.  I'm using that option in the master
> shutdown script - after closing down the server I run:
> 


Thanks for the info.  I actually had one of my programmers take a stab 
at this and he wrote in a patch that allows me to specify a time period 
in which the sync_client will poll the sync_server and then die after 
the time period has passed.   He's coding in an option to let it poll 
indefinitely and continue logging as I write this.   Although we aren't 
going to suggest it get added to the distribution at this point because 
he is leaving on a long long vacation :)



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