On 01/10/2014 02:47 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Really, the commits themselves are sent to the server at exactly the
> same speed independent of sync/async. The only thing that's delayed is
> the *notificiation* of the client that sent the commit. Not the commit
> itself.
Which is irrelevant to the point that if the standby goes down, we are
now out of business.
Any continuous replication should not be a SPOF. The current behavior
guarantees that a two node sync cluster is a SPOF. The proposed behavior
removes that.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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