Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From MARK CALLAGHAN
Subject Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication.
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In response to Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication.  (Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>)
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:

> Their documentation [1] isn't entirely clear on that first: "the master
> blocks after the commit is done and waits until at least one
> semisynchronous slave acknowledges that it has received all events for
> the transaction" and the "slave acknowledges receipt of a transaction's
> events only after the events have been written to its relay log and
> flushed to disk".
>
> But then continues to say that "[the master is] waiting for
> acknowledgment from a slave after having performed a commit", so this
> indeed sounds like the transaction is visible to other sessions before
> the slave ACKs.

Yes, their docs are not clear on this.

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Mark Callaghan
mdcallag@gmail.com


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