Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

From: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issues with Quorum Commit
Date: 2010-10-08 09:07:36
Message-ID: 4CAEDF58.3020800@bluegap.ch
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On 10/08/2010 11:00 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> From the perspective of an observer, randomly selecting a standby for
> load balancing purposes: No, they are not guaranteed to see the "latest"
> answer, nor even can they find out whether what they are seeing is the
> latest answer.

I completely agree. The application (or at least the load balancer)
needs to be aware of that fact.

Regards

Markus

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