From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Streaming replication and postmaster signaling |
Date: | 2010-01-08 01:06:09 |
Message-ID: | 20100108010609.GM30864@fetter.org |
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On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:32:28PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 21:22, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> No, I don't think so. HS without SR means you still have to fool
> >> with setting up WAL-file-based replication, which despite the
> >> existence of pg_standby is a PITA. And you have to make a
> >> tradeoff of how often to flush WAL files to the standby. To be a
> >> real candidate for "it just works" replication, we've *got* to
> >> have SR.
>
> > Yes, but HS without SR certainly solves all the "need to offload
> > my reporting" kind of situations, which is still a very big thing.
> > Yes, it'll be much nicer with SR, but it will be *very* useful
> > without it as well.
>
> [ shrug... ] To me, HS+SR is actual replication, which would
> justify tagging this release 9.0. With only one of them, it's 8.5.
> I understand that there are power users who would find HS alone to
> be tremendously useful, but in terms of what the average user sees,
> there's a quantum difference.
By, "quantum," do you mean, "the smallest possible?"
Cheers,
David.
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