Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

>> For me, that's enough to call it "synchronous replication". It provides a
>> useful guarantee to the client. But you could argue for an even stricter
>> definition, requiring atomicity so that if a transaction is not successfully
>> replicated for any reason, including crash, it is rolled back in the master
>> too. That would require 2PC.
>>
>
> My worry is that the stricter definition is what many people will expect,
> without reading the fine print.

They they are either already hosed or already using 2PC.

a.
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