Re: Configuring synchronous replication

Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>

From: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-22T16:43:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 22 September 2010 17:23, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> [server]
>> guc=value
>>
>> or
>>
>> server.guc=value
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Yes, this was my idea too.  It uses our existing config file format.
>

So...

sync_rep_services = {critical: recv=2, fsync=2, replay=1;
                     important: fsync=3;
                     reporting: recv=2, apply=1}

becomes ...

sync_rep_services.critical.recv = 2
sync_rep_services.critical.fsync = 2
sync_rep_services.critical.replay = 2
sync_rep_services.important.fsync = 3
sync_rep_services.reporting.recv = 2
sync_rep_services.reporting.apply = 1

I actually started to give this example to demonstrate how cumbersome
it would look... but now that I've just typed it out, I've changed my
mind.  I actually like it!

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