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

From Markus Wanner
Subject Re: Issues with Quorum Commit
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Msg-id 4CB2F952.8050908@bluegap.ch
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In response to Re: Issues with Quorum Commit  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Greg,

to me it looks like we have very similar goals, but start from different
preconditions. I absolutely agree with you given the preconditions you
named.

On 10/08/2010 10:04 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> How is that a new problem?  It's already possible to end up with a
> standby pair that has suffered through some bizarre failure chain such
> that it's not necessarily obvious which of the two systems has the most
> recent set of data on it.  And that's not this project's problem to
> solve.

Thanks for pointing that out. I think that might not have been clear to
me. This limitation of scope certainly make sense for the Postgres
project in general.

Regards

Markus Wanner


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