Re: Doc: fix the note related to the GUC "synchronized_standby_slots"
Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Masahiro.Ikeda@nttdata.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Masao.Fujii@nttdata.com, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, Hou, Zhijie/侯 志杰 <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Date: 2024-08-26T09:37:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 1:30 PM <Masahiro.Ikeda@nttdata.com> wrote: > > When I read the following documentation related to the "synchronized_standby_slots", I misunderstood that data loss would not occur in the case of synchronous physical replication. However, this is incorrect (see reproduce.txt). > > > Note that in the case of asynchronous replication, there remains a risk of data loss for transactions committed on the former primary server but have yet to be replicated to the new primary server. > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/logical-replication-failover.html > > Am I missing something? > It seems part of the paragraph: "Note that in the case of asynchronous replication, there remains a risk of data loss for transactions committed on the former primary server but have yet to be replicated to the new primary server." is a bit confusing. Will it make things clear to me if we remove that part? I am keeping a few others involved in this feature development in Cc. -- With Regards, Amit Kapila.
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Doc: Fix the ambiguity in the description of failover slots.
- 9d90e2bdafbd 18.0 landed
- 135007a1008c 17.0 landed