Re: Sync Rep v17

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. The primary is running with allow_standalone_primary = on. There
>    is only one (synchronous) standby connected.

OK.  Explicitly configured to allow the master to report as commited
stuff which isn't on a/any slave.

> 7. New primary doesn't have some transactions committed to the
>    client, i.e., transaction lost happens!!

And this is a surprise?

I'm not saying there isn't a better way to to sequence/control a
shutdown to make this risk less, but isn't that the whole point of the
"allow_standalone_primary" debate/option?

"If there isn't a sync slave for whatever reason, just march on, I'll
deal with the transactions that are committed and not replicated some
other way".

I guess complaining that it shouldn't be possible to "just march on
when no sync slave is available" is one possible way oof "dealing
with" them ;-)

a.

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