Re: Reliable WAL file shipping over unreliable network

From: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>
To: Rui DeSousa <rui(dot)desousa(at)icloud(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reliable WAL file shipping over unreliable network
Date: 2018-03-06 18:58:35
Message-ID: 1f90c51e-0f7a-1d67-c35a-90f42314cd79@pgmasters.net
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On 3/6/18 1:53 PM, Rui DeSousa wrote:
>
>> On Mar 6, 2018, at 1:47 PM, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net
>> <mailto:david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>> wrote:
>>
>> It's true that there are no good base utilities for this purpose, not
>> sure why NFS would be an exception, though.
>
> NFS file writes are synchronous writes on the NFS server — unless you
> make them asynchronous which makes for a bad NFS server.

In my experience this is common -- because it gives better performance
and most people don't understand the risks.

--
-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net

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