Re: Configuring synchronous replication

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Configuring synchronous replication
Date: 2010-09-24 10:59:42
Message-ID: 1285325982.21874.1530.camel@ebony
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On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 11:43 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > To get zero data loss *and* continuous availability, you need two
> > standbys offering sync rep and reply-to-first behaviour.
>
> Yes, that is a good point.
>
> I'm starting to understand what your proposal was all about. It makes
> sense when you think of a three node system configured for high
> availability with zero data loss like that.
>
> The use case of keeping hot standby servers up todate in a cluster
> where
> read-only queries are distributed across all nodes seems equally
> important though. What's the simplest method of configuration that
> supports both use cases?

That is definitely the right question. (More later)

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