Re: pg_receivewal documentation

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: jesper(dot)pedersen(at)redhat(dot)com, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_receivewal documentation
Date: 2019-07-11 04:58:06
Message-ID: 20190711045806.GH4500@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:12:46PM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> Are you talking about the replication connection from pg_receivewal
> to the PostgreSQL server? That wouldn't do anything, because it is
> the setting of "synchronous_commit" for an independent client
> connection that is the problem:

Ditto. My previous message was wrong and you are right. You are
right that this had better be documented. I have no thought this ne
through completely.

> One alternative option I see is for pg_receivewal to confirm that
> it has applied the changes as soon as it flushed them.
> It would be cheating somewhat, but it would work around the problem
> in a way that few people would find surprising.

Yes, that's wrong as pg_receivewal applies nothing.
--
Michael

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