Re: Synchronous Log Shipping Replication

From: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Synchronous Log Shipping Replication
Date: 2008-09-08 22:52:02
Message-ID: 48C5AC92.20800@bluegap.ch
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Hi,

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Backends would
> update a shared memory variable specifying how far they want the wal
> streamer to advance and send a signal to the wal streamer if necessary.
> Backends would monitor another shared memory variable that specifies how
> far the wal streamer has advanced.

That sounds like WAL needs to be written to disk, before it can be sent
to the standby. Except maybe with some sort of mmap'ing the WAL.

Regards

Markus Wanner

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