Re: hot standby documentation

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: hot standby documentation
Date: 2010-06-23 19:29:54
Message-ID: 4C2260B2.8040305@enterprisedb.com
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On 23/06/10 22:05, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Simon Riggs<simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> We could also allow SELECT ... FOR SHARE during Hot Standby, simply by
>> making it same as normal SELECT, without any ill effects.
>
> True.

Not really. It won't matter while the standby is in read-only mode, but
as soon as the server is promoted to master, you could have other
backends modifying rows that the still-running "SELECT ... FOR SHARED"
transaction should have locked.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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