Re: Standalone synchronous master - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Standalone synchronous master
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Msg-id 17515.1389217256@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Standalone synchronous master  (Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>)
Responses Re: Standalone synchronous master  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com> writes:
> I'm torn on whether we should cave to popular demand on this; but
> if we do, we sure need to be very clear in the documentation about
> what a successful return from a commit request means.� Sooner or
> later, Murphy's Law being what it is, if we do this someone will
> lose the primary and blame us because the synchronous replica is
> missing gobs of transactions that were successfully committed.

I'm for not caving.  I think people who are asking for this don't
actually understand what they'd be getting.
        regards, tom lane



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