Re: Sync Rep Design

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com, Josh Berkus <josh(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sync Rep Design
Date: 2011-01-01 22:41:10
Message-ID: 1293921670.1892.65467.camel@ebony
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On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 21:41 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 31.12.2010 23:18, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > On 31.12.2010 13:40, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> That thread makes no mention of how to specify which standbys are
> >> synchronous and which are not.
> > The simplest way would be to have separate database users for sync and
> > async standbys ?
> >
> > That would allow any standby with right credentials act as a sync user,
> > and those who are not eligible are not accepted even if they try to act
> > as "a synchronity (?) provider".
>
> Hmm, access control... We haven't yet discussed what privileges a
> standby needs to become synchronous. Perhaps it needs to be a separate
> privilege that can be granted, in addition to the replication privilege?

Perhaps we don't need it, also. Why is that essential in this release?

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