Re: multi-master pgbench? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: multi-master pgbench?
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Msg-id 20120822141150.GA29558@fetter.org
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In response to Re: multi-master pgbench?  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:13:43AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> >> What does "propagation of the writes" mean?
> > 
> > I apologize for not being clear.  In a multi-master system, people
> > frequently wish to know how quickly a write operation has been
> > duplicated to the other nodes.  In some sense, those write
> > operations are incomplete until they have happened on all nodes,
> > even in the asynchronous case.
> 
> IMO, that kind of functionnality is beyond the scope of benchmark
> tools.

I was trying to come up with something that would distinguish pgbench
for multi-master from pgbench run on independent nodes.  Is there some
other distinction to draw?

Cheers,
David.
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