Re: Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers

From: marcin mank <marcin(dot)mank(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(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: 2010-07-08 03:52:14
Message-ID: AANLkTim_kUfYXzvnlR5u_qhA5cHeaYvJFAdUaxssdRyb@mail.gmail.com
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> Having said that, I do think we urgently need some high-level design
> discussion on how sync rep is actually going to handle this issue
> (perhaps on a new thread).  If we can't resolve this issue, sync rep
> is going to be really slow; but there are no easy solutions to this
> problem in sight, so if we want to have sync rep for 9.1 we'd better
> agree on one of the difficult solutions soon so that work can begin.
>

When standbys reconnect after a crash, they could send the
ahead-of-the-master WAL to the master. This is an alternative to
choosing the most-ahead standby as the new master, as suggested
elsewhere.

Greetings
Marcin Mańk

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