Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issues with Quorum Commit
Date: 2010-10-08 14:55:49
Message-ID: AANLkTinqN45iL+a9Rm7O0PDK3Zu_1vxnjP5qqWXXaex3@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >From the perspective of an observer, randomly selecting a standby for
> load balancing purposes: No, they are not guaranteed to see the "latest"
> answer, nor even can they find out whether what they are seeing is the
> latest answer.

To guarantee that each standby returns the same result, we would need to
use the cluster-wide snapshot to run queries. IIRC, Postgres-XC provides
that feature. Though I'm not sure if it can be applied in HS/SR.

Regards,

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

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