Sebastien Lardiere a écrit :
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:42 +0100, Sebastien Lardiere <sebastien at lardiere.net> wrote:
>>>> Shouldn't node 2 and/or 3 be forwarder if you want to use one of them
>> as
>>> a
>>>> master ?
>>> You're right, i enable forward for 2 and 3, and then failover work.
>>>
> 
> Ok, it work, and i understand why i've got some error : 
> 
> - I have to set all direct receiver with forward = yes
> 
> - When I do failover, i have to wait before send "drop node" for remover the old master.

Did you have to explicitly drop the node ? Documentation says it is done on
every subscriber by the failover command. (so does slonik source code).

> 
> Perhaps somewhere in the documentation, it could be write that in case of failover, future master and direct receiver have to be set with forward = yes ? 
> 

It's explained here :

http://slony.info/adminguide/slony1-1.2.6/doc/adminguide/stmtsubscribeset.html

In fact, it is said that you should turn it off if you are *certain* you will
*never* fail or switch against that node.

Best regards,

SAS