Re: Standalone synchronous master - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Standalone synchronous master
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Msg-id 20140108225637.GH2686@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Standalone synchronous master  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Standalone synchronous master  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: Standalone synchronous master  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
Re: Standalone synchronous master  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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* Andres Freund (andres@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> That's why you should configure a second standby as another (candidate)
> synchronous replica, also listed in synchronous_standby_names.

Perhaps we should stress in the docs that this is, in fact, the *only*
reasonable mode in which to run with sync rep on?  Where there are
multiple replicas, because otherwise Drake is correct that you'll just
end up having both nodes go offline if the slave fails.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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