On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 12:45 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >>> Quorum commit, even with configurable vote weights, can't handle a
> >>> requirement that a particular commit be replicated to (A || B) && (C
> >>> || D).
> >> Good point.
Asking for quorum_commit = 3 would cover that requirement.
Not exactly as requested, but in a way that is both simpler to express
and requires no changes to configuration after failover. ISTM better to
have a single parameter than 5 separate configuration files, with
behaviour that the community would not easily be able to validate.
> If this is the only feature which standby registration is needed for,
> has anyone written the code for it yet? Is anyone planning to?
(Not me)
> If not, it seems like standby registration is not *required* for 9.1. I
> still tend to think it would be nice to have from a DBA perspective, but
> we should separate required from "nice to have".
Agreed.
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