On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:57:24PM +0000, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> >I plan to submit a proposal for implementing support for
> >read-only queries during wal replay as a "Google Summer of Code 2007"
> >project.
> >
> >I've been browsing the postgres source-code for the last few days,
> >and came up with the following plan for a implementation.
> >
> >I'd be very interested in any feedback on the propsoal - especially
> >of the "you overlooked this an that, it can never work that way" kind ;-)
>
> I had the same thought roughly two years ago:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg01043.php
>
> People weren't very interested in having a read-only mode. I think it
> would be a nice feature if it's not too complicated.
Every customer I've ever talked to about HA has either asked about it or
thought it was a great idea. We should definitely do it if it's not a
load of difficult..
--
Jim Nasby jim@nasby.net
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