Changes:

[slony-i/slony_failover] / slony_failover.conf

diff --git a/slony_failover.conf b/slony_failover.conf
index f1be52a144a4dd25261d2a98705b8cd289810498..8ad164a73d72f4b8262964bd2ad893dcea8aea18 100644 (file)
--- a/slony_failover.conf
+++ b/slony_failover.conf
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ drop_failed_nodes = true                    # Drop all failed nodes immediately
 # Database node to read initial Slony-I configuration from
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 slony_database_host = localhost
-slony_database_port = 5434
+slony_database_port = 5432
 slony_database_name = TEST
 slony_database_user = slony
 slony_database_password =                   # Recommended to leave blank and use .pgpass
@@ -87,3 +87,20 @@ autofailover_config_any_node = true         # After reading the initial cluster
 autofailover_poll_interval = 50             # Cluster state poll interval (milliseconds)
 autofailover_node_retry = 2                 # Retries before initiating failover
 autofailover_sleep_time = 5000              # Interval between retries (milliseconds)
+autofailover_perspective_sleep_time = 20000 # Interval between lag reads for failed nodes
+                                            # from surviving nodes. If greater than zero
+                                            # any observation that nodes have failed is
+                                            # checked from surviving nodes perspective by
+                                            # checking if lag times are extending.
+                                            # This does not guarantee 100% the nodes are down
+                                            # but if set to a large enough interval (at least 
+                                            # sync_interval_timeout) can back up our observation.
+autofailover_majority_only = true           # Only fail over if the quantity of surviving nodes
+                                            # is greater than the quantity of failed nodes.
+                                            # Intended to be used to prevent a split-brain scenario
+                                            # in conjunction with some other logic to monitor and 
+                                            # fence off the old origin if it is in the minority.
+autofailover_is_quorum = true               # If this script is running on a separate host set to 
+                                            # true to treat it as a quorum server. Effectively 
+                                            # increments sum of surviving nodes when calculating
+                                            # the majority above.