Re: write ahead logging in standby (streaming replication)

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: write ahead logging in standby (streaming replication)
Date: 2009-11-13 02:20:16
Message-ID: 3f0b79eb0911121820p2eae030aq9a8a638c7ade231a@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> wrote:
> * Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> [091112 20:52]:
>
>>                                                        Personally, I think that
>> semi-synchronous replication is sufficient for HA.
>
> Often, but that's not synchronous replication so don't call it such...

Hmm, though I'm not sure about your definition of "synchronous",
if the primary waits for a *redo* ACK from the standby before
returning a "success" of a transaction to a client, you can call
SR synchronous?

This is one of TODO items of SR for v8.5.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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