Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL
Date: 2008-06-10 01:50:58
Message-ID: 5164.1213062658@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Gurjeet Singh wrote:
>> There could be multiple slaves following a master, some serving

> For the slave to not interfere with the master at all, we would need to
> delay application of WAL files on each slave until visibility on that
> slave allows the WAL to be applied, but in that case we would have
> long-running transactions delay data visibility of all slave sessions.

Right, but you could segregate out long-running queries to one slave
server that could be further behind than the others.

regards, tom lane

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