Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove replicaiton FAQ item.

From: Mischa Sandberg <mischa(dot)sandberg(at)telus(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql(at)empires(dot)org>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove replicaiton FAQ item.
Date: 2005-04-24 23:15:06
Message-ID: 1114384506.426c287a87058@webmail.telus.net
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Quoting Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Jeff Davis wrote:
> > > Should the text include a mention of synchronous vs.
> asynchronous? Or
> > > does master-master imply synchronous?
> >
> > It shouldn't. It is possible to have synchronous replication
> without it
> > being master<->master.
>
> We could mention async vs sync but at the FAQ stage I think the
> multi-master/master-slave disinction is enough. Let's see what
> questions
> we get.

About all you can say is, it is not possible to implement synchronous
master-master replication, because of conflict resolution of
simultaneous transactions.
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