Re: BUG #6042: unlogged table with Streaming Replication

Hi, Jaime

thank you for your answer.

I understand it.

I turned synchronous_commit to "local",
I get desirable behavior.

I've thought that if there are no standby,
the primary would behave like stand-alone...
sorry, this is my misunderstanding.

regards,

(2011/05/27 14:53), Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Tomonari Katsumata
> <katsumata(dot)tomonari(at)po(dot)ntts(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>>
>> I've checked "unlogged table" and "Streaming Replication".
>> I'm thinking about using unlogged tables as work-tables on Primary.
>>
>> 1) construct Streaming Replication Environment.
>> Primary and Standby are same server with different database cluster and
>> port number.
>>
>> 2) create unlogged table on Primary.
>> =# CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE tbl1(i int);
>> This table is available on primary only.
>>
> because streaming replication works shipping WAL records (the records
> of the transactional log) to the standby but because UNLOGGED tables
> are not logged to WAL i guess those always will be empty on standby,
> but the table should appear on the standby, i guess
>
>
>> 4) create unlogged table on Primary again.
>> =# CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE tbl2(i int);
>>
>> when I executed 4), any response is not back to my psql. and I canceled the
>> query, I got messages bellow.
>> ---
>> Cancel request sent
>> WARNING: canceling wait for synchronous replication due to user request
>> DETAIL: The transaction has already committed locally, but may not have
>> been replicated to the standby.
>> CREATE TABLE
>> ---
>> and the table has been created.
>>
>> I think It's strange behavior(a canceled table has been created).
>>
> actually, you're not cancelling the creation... the table has been
> created and the wal is being sent to the standby (because the standby
> is a synchronous standby, it keeps waiting until the standby aknlowdge
> to have received the wal), so what you are cancelling now is the
> primary waiting for the standby...
>
>
> btw, i guess we should be defaulting to asynchronous standbys (ie:
> synchronous_commit=local)
>