On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Now, the more relevant question, what I actually need in order for a Sync
> Rep feature in 9.1 to be useful to the people who want it most I talk to.
> That would be a simple to configure setup where I list a subset of
> "important" nodes, and the appropriate acknowledgement level I want to hear
> from one of them. And when one of those nodes gives that acknowledgement,
> commit on the master happens too. That's it. For use cases like the
> commonly discussed "two local/two remote" situation, the two remote ones
> would be listed as the important ones.
That sounds fine to me. How do the details work? Each slave
publishes a name to the master via a recovery.conf parameter, and the
master has a GUC listing the names of the important slaves?
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