Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issues with Quorum Commit
Date: 2010-10-06 11:11:14
Message-ID: 4CAC5952.3060204@enterprisedb.com
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On 06.10.2010 13:41, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> That's only for a narrow definition of availability. For a lot of
> people, having access to your data isn't considered availability
> unless you can trust the data...

Ok, fair enough. For that, synchronous replication in the "wait forever"
mode is the only alternative. That on its own doesn't give you any boost
in availability, on the contrary, but coupled with suitable clustering
tools to handle failover and deciding when the standby is dead, you can
achieve that.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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