From: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Re: making write location work (was: Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication) |
Date: | 2011-03-25 09:03:16 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTikfGngoxGfHK6jjR68P=aaMS7w=Vp476d1Dqgip@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> The protocol supports sending two values, so two are displayed.
>>
>> If you wish to remove one from the display then that only makes sense
>> if you also prevent the protocol from supporting two values.
>>
>> There is no benefit in doing that, so why do it? We are going to put
>> that back in 9.2 if you remove it now. Why not leave it, so we don't
>> need to rewrite all the monitoring tools that will use this view?
What are you planning to use write_location for? BTW, I'm thinking to
add recv_location (not write_location) in 9.2 to support another sync rep
mode which makes transactions wait until the standby has received
(not fsync'd) the WAL. You're planning the same?
> If we're going to put it back in 9.2, then we shouldn't remove it now.
> We should just make it work. It's a three line patch. If 9.2 is
> going to meaningfully distinguish between write location and flush
> location, then we may as well do the same thing in 9.1. Then we'll be
> ahead of the game: not only will the view have the same columns in
> both releases, but they'll actually have the same semantics in both
> releases.
+1
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
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