[ClusterLabs] Is fencing really a must for Postgres failover?

[Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:14:53 -0500
Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:

> On 2019-02-11 1:04 p.m., Digimer wrote:
> > On 2019-02-11 12:34 p.m., Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote:  
> >> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:54:03 -0500
> >> Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:
> >> [...]  
> >>> Also, with pacemaker v2, fencing (stonith) became mandatory at a
> >>> programmatic level.  
> >>
> >> ORLY? What did I missed?
> >>  
> > 
> > It was announced at the last HA summit by Andrew Beekhof. I'll try to
> > find it in the docs somewhere, but iirc, it was going to be something
> > like disabling stonith would effectively put the node into maintenance
> > mode.
> > 
> > Let me find sources though, my recollection has been faulty before. :)  
> 
> I spoke to Ken Gaillot and was told that, though announced, that didn't
> actually make it into 2.0.
> 
> Quote;
> ====
> 13:04 < digimer> kgaillot: ping?
> 13:04 < digimer> stonith became required in v2, right?
> 13:05 < digimer> docs on that? I mentioned it in a ML thread but didn't
> cite my sources
> 13:06 <@kgaillot> digimer: no, that turned out to be more difficult in
> code than expected, and time ran short
> ====

Oh, OK, thank you for this quick tech-preview Digimer :)
 
> Everything else about stonith being required stands though. :)

Of course :)