Re: Issues with Quorum Commit - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Markus Wanner
Subject Re: Issues with Quorum Commit
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Msg-id 4CAF3372.8040508@bluegap.ch
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In response to Re: Issues with Quorum Commit  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On 10/08/2010 04:47 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> Yes, I really want to avoid such issues and likely complexities we get
> into trying to solve them. In reality they should not be common because
> it only happens if the sysadmin has not configured sufficient number of
> redundant standbys.

Well, full cluster outages are infrequent, but sadly cannot be avoided
entirely. (Murphy's laughing). IMO we should be prepared to deal with
those. Or am I understanding you wrongly here?

> I don't
> think we should be spending too much time trying to help people that say
> they want additional durability guarantees but do not match that with
> sufficient hardware resources to make it happen smoothly.

I fully agree to that statement.

Regards

Markus Wanner


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