hapyrus/fluent-plugin-redshift — pull request #8 by adorechic (2013-08-09 01:04:36+00:00)
Title: Add force retry mode

## Overview
Add 'force retry mode' for redshift maintenances. This mode makes log queue retry without trying to save redshift.

## Background
Redshift often goes down for maintenance. We can execute copy query while maintenance, but we can not load these data after that. No one guarantees behaviors while maintenance.

## Purpose
This 'force retry mode' brings us a controllable way while redshift downtime. If we set this option with ```retry_limit``` and ```retry_wait```, fluentd buffers queues while flag file existing, so that we don't have to re-copy from S3 manually after maintenance.