Re: Standalone synchronous master

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, 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: 2014-01-10T22:59:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 01/10/2014 02:57 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:

>     Yes, if you have a BBU that memory is authoritative in most cases. But
>     in that case the argument of having two disks is pretty much pointless,
>     the SPOF suddenly became the battery + ram.
>
>
> If that is a concern then use multiple controllers. Certainly not
> unheard of- look at SANs...
>

And in PostgreSQL we obviously have the option of having a third or 
fourth standby but that isn't the problem we are trying to solve.

JD



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