[Bucardo-general] Stalled sync status

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:23:27PM +0100, Hans van der Riet wrote:
> Running Bucardo 5.1.1, I understand syncs now can get 'stalled' so a
> broken sync no longer blocks the other syncs from being updated.
...
> Bucardo keeps on running, but nothing happens anymore because the
> sync is still stalled. 'bucardo status' reports the state of the
> sync as good. Doing a restart marks the sync and db again as active
> and everything returns to normal.
> 
> Is restarting the only way to 'unstall' a sync? Is the best/only way
> to monitor if a sync is stalled doing a 'select status from sync'?

A sync should 'resurrect' itself after a certain time period, but 
there are some bugs in that part of the code: I'm working on that 
at the moment. As far as detection, yes, but other suggestions 
welcome as we've not really considered good ways to do that yet.

-- 
Greg Sabino Mullane greg at endpoint.com
End Point Corporation
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