Re: Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers

Marcin Mańk <marcin.mank@gmail.com>

From: marcin mank <marcin.mank@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-08T03:52:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Having said that, I do think we urgently need some high-level design
> discussion on how sync rep is actually going to handle this issue
> (perhaps on a new thread).  If we can't resolve this issue, sync rep
> is going to be really slow; but there are no easy solutions to this
> problem in sight, so if we want to have sync rep for 9.1 we'd better
> agree on one of the difficult solutions soon so that work can begin.
>

When standbys reconnect after a crash, they could send the
ahead-of-the-master WAL to the master. This is an alternative to
choosing the most-ahead standby as the new master, as suggested
elsewhere.

Greetings
Marcin Mańk