Re: logical replication apply to run with sync commit off by default

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Subject: Re: logical replication apply to run with sync commit off by default
Date: 2017-04-06 17:38:41
Message-ID: 8ddd32f2-9aab-20a5-850a-565a79341e56@2ndquadrant.com
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On 3/24/17 10:49, Petr Jelinek wrote:
>>>>> On 07/03/17 06:23, Petr Jelinek wrote:
>>>>>> there has been discussion at the logical replication initial copy thread
>>>>>> [1] about making apply work with sync commit off by default for
>>>>>> performance reasons and adding option to change that per subscription.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here I propose patch to implement this - it adds boolean column
>>>>>> subssynccommit to pg_subscription catalog which decides if
>>>>>> synchronous_commit should be off or local for apply. And it adds
>>>>>> SYNCHRONOUS_COMMIT = boolean to the list of WITH options for CREATE and
>>>>>> ALTER SUBSCRIPTION. When nothing is specified it will set it to false.

> Rebase after table copy patch got committed.

I think this change could use some more documentation. Under what
circumstances would a user want to turn this back on?

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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