Re: Synchronous replication & Hot standby patches

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, "K, Niranjan (NSN - IN/Bangalore)" <niranjan(dot)k(at)nsn(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Synchronous replication & Hot standby patches
Date: 2009-02-24 22:24:11
Message-ID: 3f0b79eb0902241424h31c5b22fk28b8379e0243af4@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> It seems to me that in previous discussions of Streaming Replication,
> Heikki put forward the proposition that the standby server should be
> able to connect to the primary and stream not only newly-generated WAL
> but also, if necessary, a base backup. As I recall, he argued that
> without this functionality Streaming Replication would be far too
> difficult to administer for the majority of users.

The automatic transfer of a base backup is useful, but not essential.
So, I'm not planning to work on it until synch rep patch is committed
at least. IIRC, nobody argues that such a feature is indispensable
also to the first step. We should develop synch rep in stages?

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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