Re: Quorum commit for multiple synchronous replication.

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)berkus(dot)org>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Quorum commit for multiple synchronous replication.
Date: 2017-08-10 16:40:29
Message-ID: 27393f4c-3a12-4055-8d18-436e340d7ea5@berkus.org
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On 08/09/2017 10:49 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
>>> This item appears under "decisions to recheck mid-beta". If anyone is going
>>> to push for a change here, now is the time.
>>
>> It has been 1 week since the previous mail. I though that there were
>> others argued to change the behavior of old-style setting so that a
>> quorum commit is chosen. If nobody is going to push for a change we
>> can live with the current behavior?
>
> FWIW, I still see no harm in keeping backward-compatibility here, so I
> am in favor of a statu-quo.
>

I am vaguely in favor of making quorum the default over "ordered".
However, given that anybody using sync commit without
understanding/customizing the setup is going to be sorry regardless,
keeping backwards compatibility is acceptable.

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Josh Berkus
Containers & Databases Oh My!

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