Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

From: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, 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 15:06:26
Message-ID: 4CAF3372.8040508@bluegap.ch
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On 10/08/2010 04:47 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> Yes, I really want to avoid such issues and likely complexities we get
> into trying to solve them. In reality they should not be common because
> it only happens if the sysadmin has not configured sufficient number of
> redundant standbys.

Well, full cluster outages are infrequent, but sadly cannot be avoided
entirely. (Murphy's laughing). IMO we should be prepared to deal with
those. Or am I understanding you wrongly here?

> I don't
> think we should be spending too much time trying to help people that say
> they want additional durability guarantees but do not match that with
> sufficient hardware resources to make it happen smoothly.

I fully agree to that statement.

Regards

Markus Wanner

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