Re: Configuring synchronous replication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: Configuring synchronous replication
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In response to Re: Configuring synchronous replication  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I think maybe you missed Tom's point, or else you just didn't respond
> to it.  If the master is wedged because it is waiting for a standby,
> then you cannot commit transactions on the master.  Therefore you
> cannot update the system catalog which you must update to unwedge it.
> Failing over in that situation is potentially a huge nuisance and
> extremely undesirable.

All Wrong.

You might remember that Simon's proposal begins with per-transaction
synchronous replication behavior?

Regards,
-- 
dim


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