On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:24 PM Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 23:59 -0800, SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM wrote: > I would like to propose a GUC send_Wal_after_quorum_committed which > when set to ON, walsenders corresponds to async standbys and logical > replication workers wait until the LSN is quorum committed on the > primary before sending it to the standby. This not only simplifies > the post failover steps but avoids unnecessary downtime for the async > replicas. Thoughts?
Do we need a GUC? Or should we just always require that sync rep is satisfied before sending to async replicas?
I proposed a GUC to not introduce a behavior change by default. I have no strong opinion on having a GUC or making the proposed behavior default, would love to get others' perspectives as well.
It feels like the sync quorum should always be ahead of the async replicas. Unless I'm missing a use case, or there is some kind of performance gotcha.
I couldn't think of a case that can cause serious performance issues but will run some experiments on this and post the numbers.
