Re: Sync Rep Design

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>

To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>

Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, greg@2ndQuadrant.com, Josh Berkus <josh@postgresql.org>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2011-01-01T16:28:42Z

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Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> well you keep saying that but to be honest I cannot really even see a
> usecase for me - what is "only a random one of a set of servers is sync at
> any time and I don't really know which one".

It looks easy enough to get to know which one it is.  Surely the primary
knows and could update something visible through a system view for
users?  This as been asked for before and I was thinking there was a
consensus on this.

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
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