Re: Synchronous commit not... synchronous?

On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 01:31:34PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:03 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 06:39:20PM -0700, Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
> > > This was rather surprising - my synchronous commit was... not
> > > cancelled. Is this expected behaviour?
> >
> > I believe it is.
> >
> > Does the following do the right thing?
> >
> > SET synchronous_commit='on';
> > BEGIN;
> > INSERT INTO data VALUES ('baz');
> > COMMIT;^c
> >
> > Oh, and how did you get that cancel in?
> >
> He enforced a manual cancel from client with something like Ctrl+C to
> cancel query.
> In this case you do not wait for the slave to confirm that the commit
> information has been flushed on its disk.

I guess my disk subsystem (it's a consumer-grade DAS SSD) doesn't have
enough latency for my reflexes to hit ^C fast enough. Any way to
inject this fault deterministically?

Cheers,
David.
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