Re: write ahead logging in standby (streaming replication) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: write ahead logging in standby (streaming replication)
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Msg-id 24069.1258037544@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: write ahead logging in standby (streaming replication)  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: write ahead logging in standby (streaming replication)
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Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
> The problem is that fsync needs to be issued too frequently, which would
> be harmless in asynchronous replication, but not in synchronous one.
> A transaction would have to wait for the primary's and standby's fsync
> before returning a "success" to a client.

Surely that is exactly what is *required* if the user has asked for
synchronous replication.
        regards, tom lane


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