Re: An attempt to avoid locally-committed-but-not-replicated-to-standby-transactions in synchronous replication

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <satyanarlapuram(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrey Borodin <amborodin86(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: An attempt to avoid locally-committed-but-not-replicated-to-standby-transactions in synchronous replication
Date: 2022-11-29 16:29:13
Message-ID: Y4YzWeRgDYOj5Rod@momjian.us
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 08:14:10AM -0800, SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM wrote:
> 2. Process proc die immediately when a backend is waiting for sync
> replication acknowledgement, as it does today, however, upon restart,
> don't open up for business (don't accept ready-only connections)
> unless the sync standbys have caught up.
>
>
> Are you planning to block connections or queries to the database? It would be
> good to allow connections and let them query the monitoring views but block the
> queries until sync standby have caught up. Otherwise, this leaves a monitoring
> hole. In cloud, I presume superusers are allowed to connect and monitor (end
> customers are not the role members and can't query the data). The same can't be
> true for all the installations. Could you please add more details on your
> approach?

I think ALTER SYSTEM should be allowed, particularly so you can modify
synchronous_standby_names, no?

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