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Re: Standalone synchronous master

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Rajeev rastogi <rajeev.rastogi@huawei.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-01-08T20:27:51Z
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On Wed, Jan  8, 2014 at 05:39:23PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 8 January 2014 09:07, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm going to say right off the bat that I think the whole notion to
> > automatically disable synchronous replication when the standby goes down is
> > completely bonkers.
> 
> Agreed
> 
> We had this discussion across 3 months and we don't want it again.
> This should not have been added as a TODO item.

I am glad Heikki and Simon agree, but I don't.  ;-)

The way that I understand it is that you might want durability, but
might not want to sacrifice availability.  Phrased that way, it makes
sense, and notifying the administrator seems the appropriate action.

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