Re: Quorum commit for multiple synchronous replication.

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)berkus(dot)org>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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>, 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: 2017-08-23 18:11:29
Message-ID: 69b3ee85-50c6-c2f3-3501-b7a10e0b3b99@berkus.org
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On 08/22/2017 11:04 PM, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> WARNING: what you did is ok, but you might have wanted to do something else
>
> First of all, whether or not that can properly be called a warning is
> highly debatable. Also, if you do that sort of thing to your spouse
> and/or children, they call it "nagging". I don't think users will
> like it any more than family members do.

Realistically, we'll support the backwards-compatible syntax for 3-5
years. Which is fine.

I suggest that we just gradually deprecate the old syntax from the docs,
and then around Postgres 16 eliminate it. I posit that that's better
than changing the meaning of the old syntax out from under people.

--
Josh Berkus
Containers & Databases Oh My!

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