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Re: Configuring synchronous replication

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: jd@commandprompt.com, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-22T17:12:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 22/09/10 20:02, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 22/09/10 20:00, Robert Haas wrote:
>> But it CAN'T be a system catalog, because, among other problems, that
>> rules out cascading slaves, which are a feature a lot of people
>> probably want to eventually have.
>
> FWIW it could be a system catalog backed by a flat file. But I'm not in
> favor of that for the other reasons I stated earlier.

Huh, I just realized that my reply didn't make any sense. For some 
reason I thought you were saying that it can't be a catalog because 
backends need to access it without attaching to a database.

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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