Re: Remove non-fast promotion Re: Should we remove a fallback promotion? take 2

From: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr(at)dalibo(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remove non-fast promotion Re: Should we remove a fallback promotion? take 2
Date: 2020-04-21 21:19:33
Message-ID: 20200421231933.444efe7f@firost
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Hello,

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:36:22 +0900
Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:29:54PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> > Yeah, but that's not documented. So I don't think that we need to keep
> > the backward-compatibility for that.
> >
> > Also in that case, non-fast promotion is triggered. Since my patch
> > tries to remove non-fast promotion, it's intentional to prevent them
> > from doing that. But you think that we should not drop that because
> > there are still some users for that?
>
> It would be good to ask around to folks maintaining HA solutions about
> that change at least, as there could be a point in still letting
> promotion to happen in this case, but switch silently to the fast
> path.

FWIW, PAF relies on pg_ctl promote. No need for non-fast promotion.

Regards,

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