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Re: [ADMIN] pg_basebackup blocking all queries with horrible performance

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com>, Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au>, Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@comcast.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-06-20T18:18:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>>>> You agreed to add something like NOSYNC option into START_REPLICATION command?
>>>
>>> I'm on the fence. I was hoping somebody else would chime in with an
>>> opinion as well.
>>
>> +1
>
> Nobody else with any opinion on this? :(

I don't think we really need a NOSYNC flag at this point.  Just not
setting the flush location in clients that make a point of flushing in
a timely fashion seems fine.

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Robert Haas
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