Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issues with Quorum Commit
Date: 2010-10-08 14:38:15
Message-ID: 22421.1286548695@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> writes:
> On 10/08/2010 04:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually, #2 seems rather difficult even if you want it. Presumably
>> you'd like to keep that state in reliable storage, so it survives master
>> crashes. But how you gonna commit a change to that state, if you just
>> lost every standby (suppose master's ethernet cable got unplugged)?

> IIUC you seem to assume that the master node keeps its master role. But
> users who value availability a lot certainly want automatic fail-over,

Huh? Surely loss of the slaves shouldn't force a failover. Maybe the
slaves really are all dead.

regards, tom lane

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