Re: Sync Rep v19

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-28T19:03:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Do you still want to work up a patch for this?  If so, I can review.
>>>>
>>>> Sure. Will do.
>>>
>>> The attached patch allows standby servers to connect during smart shutdown
>>> in order to wake up backends waiting for sync rep.
>>
>> I think that is possibly OK, but the big problem is the lack of a
>> clear set of comments about how the states are supposed to interact
>> that allow these changes to be validated.
>>
>> That state isn't down to you, but I think we need that clear so this
>> change is more obviously correct than it is now.
>
> src/backend/replication/README needs to be updated to make that clear?

Not sure where we'd put them.

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