Re: Proposal for Implenting read-only queries during wal replay (SoC 2007)

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: Postgresql-General <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for Implenting read-only queries during wal replay (SoC 2007)
Date: 2007-02-23 22:57:24
Message-ID: 45DF7154.4060402@enterprisedb.com
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Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> I plan to submit a proposal for implementing support for
> read-only queries during wal replay as a "Google Summer of Code 2007"
> project.
>
> I've been browsing the postgres source-code for the last few days,
> and came up with the following plan for a implementation.
>
> I'd be very interested in any feedback on the propsoal - especially
> of the "you overlooked this an that, it can never work that way" kind ;-)

I had the same thought roughly two years ago:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg01043.php

People weren't very interested in having a read-only mode. I think it
would be a nice feature if it's not too complicated.

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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