Re: standby registration (was: is sync rep stalled?)

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: standby registration (was: is sync rep stalled?)
Date: 2010-10-05 14:00:00
Message-ID: 1286287200.2025.1386.camel@ebony
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On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 08:57 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 12:45 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> >>> Quorum commit, even with configurable vote weights, can't handle a
> >> >>> requirement that a particular commit be replicated to (A || B) && (C
> >> >>> || D).
> >> >> Good point.
> >
> > Asking for quorum_commit = 3 would cover that requirement.
> >
> > Not exactly as requested, but in a way that is both simpler to express
> > and requires no changes to configuration after failover. ISTM better to
> > have a single parameter than 5 separate configuration files, with
> > behaviour that the community would not easily be able to validate.
>
> That's just not the same thing.

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