Re: Synchronization levels in SR

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Synchronization levels in SR
Date: 2010-05-27 19:53:35
Message-ID: 201005271953.o4RJrZb19428@momjian.us
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 18:52 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
>
> > I guess that dropping the support of #3 doesn't reduce complexity
> > since the code of #3 is almost the same as that of #2. Like
> > walreceiver sends the ACK after receiving the WAL in #2 case, it has
> > only to do the same thing after the WAL flush.
>
> Hmm, well the code for #3 is similar also to the code for #4. So if you
> do #2, its easy to do #2, #3 and #4 together.
>
> The comment is about whether having #3 makes sense from a user interface
> perspective. It's easy to add options, but they must have useful
> meaning.

If the slave is runing read-only queries, #3 is the most reliable option
withouth delaying the slave, so there is a usecase for #3.

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