Re: Sync replication + high latency server

Em 13/08/2015 00:40, Joshua D. Drake escreveu:
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> On 08/12/2015 05:33 PM, Edson Richter wrote:
>> Hi!
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>> I've a situation where I would like to keep sync replication, where
>> servers have 10Mbps network connection but high latency (normally, ~20ms
>> but sometimes, 1000ms~2000ms, even 3000ms when network is under load).
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>> Considering that I will keep enough WAL files (let's say, 200 WAL
>> segments on a server with low write rate):
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>> What happens if I configure timeout in master server for, let's say, 10
>> seconds?
>> Will sync replication survive if timeout happens, and then, network
>> "recover" it self?
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> I think you are misunderstanding how sync rep works.

I don't think so: sync replication will force commit on both databases
before returning OK to my app server.

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>> Or will I be obligated to use async replication in such scenario?
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> async is your friend here.

And what about the timeout when using sync replication? What will happen?

Thanks,

Edson

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