Re: Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers
Date: 2010-07-07 10:57:51
Message-ID: AANLkTimNzO-clewD45HgKaDCV4MfVVGKQpUNQEu8UXt2@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> wrote:
> Stop me if I'm all wrong already, but I though we said that we should
> handle this case by decoupling what we can send to the standby and what
> it can apply. We could do this by sending the current WAL fsync'ed
> position on the master in the WAL sender protocol, either in the WAL
> itself or as out-of-bound messages, I guess.
>
> Now, this can be made safe, how to make it fast (low-latency) is yet to
> be addressed.

Yeah, that's the trick, isn't it?

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Robert Haas
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