Re: Standalone synchronous master

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>, MauMau <maumau307@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Rajeev rastogi <rajeev.rastogi@huawei.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-01-10T22:59:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 01/10/2014 02:47 PM, Andres Freund wrote:

> Really, the commits themselves are sent to the server at exactly the
> same speed independent of sync/async. The only thing that's delayed is
> the *notificiation* of the client that sent the commit. Not the commit
> itself.

Which is irrelevant to the point that if the standby goes down, we are 
now out of business.

Any continuous replication should not be a SPOF. The current behavior 
guarantees that a two node sync cluster is a SPOF. The proposed behavior 
removes that.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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