Re: Synchronization levels in SR

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Fujii Masao" <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Synchronization levels in SR
Date: 2010-05-26 17:10:22
Message-ID: 4BFD0FAE0200002500031B0A@gw.wicourts.gov
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> One way to do that would be to refrain from flushing the commit
> record to disk on the master until the standby has acknowledged
> it.

I'm not clear on the benefit of doing that, versus flushing the
commit record and then waiting for responses. Either way some
databases will commit before others -- what is the benefit of having
the master lag?

> Adding a synchronous standby should require some action in the
> master, since it affects the behavior on master.

+1

-Kevin

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