Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

[Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>]

David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:58:31AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Publishing the XIDs back to the master is one possibility.  We
> > > also looked at using "spillover segments" for vacuumed rows, but
> > > that seemed even less viable.
> > > 
> > > I'm also thinking, for *async replication*, that we could simply
> > > halt replication on the slave whenever a transaction passes minxid
> > > on the master.  However, the main focus will be on synchrounous
> > > hot standby.
> > 
> > Another idea I discussed with Tom is having the slave _delay_
> > applying WAL files until all slave snapshots are ready.
> 
> Either one of these would be great, but something that involves
> machines that stay useless most of the time is just not going to work.

Right, the ultimate target is to have the slave be read-only, but we
need to get the streaming of WAL logs done first.

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