Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fast promote mode skips checkpoint at end of recovery.

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fast promote mode skips checkpoint at end of recovery.
Date: 2013-02-06 17:56:11
Message-ID: 5112993B.7060203@commandprompt.com
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On 02/06/2013 09:43 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:

>> 4. I think fast promotion should be the default. Why not? There are
>> cases where you want the promotion to happen ASAP, and there are cases
>> where you don't care. But there are no scenarios where you want
>> promotion to be slow,
>
> Not true. Slow means safe and stable, and there are many scenarios
> where we want safe and stable. (Of course, nobody specifically
> requests slow). My feeling is that this is an area of exposure that we
> have no need and therefore no business touching. I will of course go
> with what others think here, but I don't find the argument that we
> should go fast always personally convincing. I am willing to relax it
> over time once we get zero field problems as a result.

Promotion, should by default should take the most safe, stable route and
only that route.

+1 On Simon's response.

JD

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