Possible issue with posting

seamus

Odd one, may or may not be an issue...

I thought I'd posted in this thread. When I looked at the thread again, my post wasn't there, so I thought maybe I'd closed the window without hitting submit. I've done it before.

But then I posted in this thread, except that my post didn't appear. That's happened before too, usually I refresh the page and it appears. But it didn't. So I went back, submitted the reply again and was told it was a duplicate of one I'd already posted. When I went back to the thread, my post still wasn't there.
So I submitted it again, same message about duplicates, but then my post appeared.

So maybe nothing, maybe some issue with DB mirroring/balancing, just flagging it...

Conor

Someone was doing some username changing this morning. That can lock a DB slave for anything up to 5 minutes. You probably caught a DB after it locked up but before it was automatically removed from the pool for being too far behind the master.

This is a known bug deliberately stupid design decision and unfortunately it can't be fixed without major surgery on the PM system. That's a priority to fix, but there are a good few other things that need to get sorted beforehand.