Re: Support for N synchronous standby servers - take 2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Support for N synchronous standby servers - take 2
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Msg-id CAB7nPqSaucq8mMsrEh7kn7Ha4q5XKvBzmb-+TLFqKNaOoAO77w@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Support for N synchronous standby servers - take 2  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Finally, while I'm raining on everyone's parade: the mechanism of
> identifying synchronous replicas by setting the application_name on the
> replica is confusing and error-prone; if we're building out synchronous
> replication into a sophisticated system, we ought to think about
> replacing it.

I assume that you do not refer to a new parameter in the connection
string like node_name, no? Are you referring to an extension of
START_REPLICATION in the replication protocol to pass an ID?
-- 
Michael



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