Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, 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: 2010-10-14 11:47:35
Message-ID: AANLkTi=dkPjr7LVnzpDgKC9=fY3YVFwy6ehHd9H9hAzN@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
> Why don't the usual protections kick in here? The new record read from
> the location the xlog reader is expecting to find it has to have a
> valid CRC and a correct back pointer to the previous record.

Yep. In most cases, those protections seem to be able to make the standby
notice the inconsistency of WAL and then give up continuing replication.
But not in all the cases. We can regard those protections as bullet-proof
safeguard?

Regards,

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

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