Re: Are we still interested in the master-slave scan patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Are we still interested in the master-slave scan patch
Date
Msg-id 200606142254.15158.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Are we still interested in the master-slave scan patch  ("Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>)
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QingQing,

> I may have some free time recently to work on the master-slave scan idea.
> I've been able to support AS-IS both SeqScan and IndexScan. Are we still
> interested in getting it into 8.2?

I don't know about anyone else, but *I'm* still interested.

> There are still some problems I am not quite sure the solution. One is the
> Xid assignment -- we need this to assure that master and slaves see the
> same snapshot. The other is the connection pool architecture: shall we let
> postmaster manage the slaves or let another process say slave-master to
> handle them? Currently I am choosing the latter.

Hmmm.  Why not the postmaster?

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco


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