On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 10:58:44 PM Marko Kreen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > On 13 June 2012 19:28, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >> This adds a new configuration parameter multimaster_node_id which
> >> determines the id used for wal originating in one cluster.
> >
> > Looks good and it seems this aspect at least is commitable in this CF.
> >
> > Design decisions I think we need to review are
> >
> > * Naming of field. I think origin is the right term, borrowing from
> > Slony.
>
> I have not read too deeply here, so maybe I am missing
> some important detail here, but idea that users need
> to coordinate a integer config parameter globally does not
> sound too attractive to me.
>
> Why not limit integers to local storage only and map
> them to string idents on config, UI and transport?
That should be possible. I don't want to go there till we have the base stuff
in but it shouldn't be too hard.
Greetings,
Andres
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