Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issues with Quorum Commit
Date: 2010-10-08 07:13:55
Message-ID: m2wrptdumk.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr
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Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
[…]
> I don't see this as needing any implementation any more complicated than the
> usual way such timeouts are handled. Note how long you've been trying to
> reach the standby. Default to -1 for forever. And if you hit the timeout,
> mark the standby as degraded and force them to do a proper resync when they
> disconnect. Once that's done, then they can re-enter sync rep mode again,
> via the same process a new node would have done so.

Thank you for this post, which is so much better than anything I could
achieve.

Just wanted to add that it should be possible in lots of cases to have a
standby rejoin the party without getting as far back as taking a new
base backup. Depends on wal_keep_segments and standby's degraded state,
among other parameters (archives, etc).

Regards,
--
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support

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