After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, julian(at)avbrief(dot)com ("Julian Scarfe") belched out:
> So all I'm looking for is a way for pgpool to shout if it detects a
> failure. That could initiate the investigation of the other
> criteria required for failover.
_There_ lies the one change that is needed. Given that, some outside
'oracle' can be used to decide if it's appropriate to do a FAILOVER.
It's quite important for this not to be deeply embedded in pgpool...
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