Re: Sync Rep and shutdown Re: Sync Rep v19

From: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Sync Rep and shutdown Re: Sync Rep v19
Date: 2011-03-17 00:53:28
Message-ID: AANLkTikni-caMx5qRPxZDbqiBf2ORtXn0+HkAvCQS7oM@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I think the most important part of all this is that it is logged.
> Anyone who is running synchronous replication should also be doing
> careful monitoring; if not, shame on them, because if your data is
> important enough that you need synchronous replication, it's surely
> important enough to watch the logs.  If you don't, all sorts of bad
> things can happen to your data (either related to sync rep, or
> otherwise) and you'll have no idea until it's far too late.

+++++

If your data is that important, your logs/monitoring are *equally*
important, because they are what give you confidence your data is as
safe as you think it is...

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