Re: Standalone synchronous master

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, MauMau <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Rajeev rastogi <rajeev(dot)rastogi(at)huawei(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Standalone synchronous master
Date: 2014-01-10 22:44:28
Message-ID: 52D077CC.6090308@commandprompt.com
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On 01/10/2014 02:33 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> On 2014-01-10 14:29:58 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> db02 goes down. It doesn't matter why. It is down. db01 continues to accept
>> orders, allow people to log into the website and we can still service
>> accounts. The continuity of service continues.
>
> Why is that configuration advantageous over a async configuration is the
> question. Why, with those requirements, are you using a synchronous
> standby at all?

If the master goes down, I can fail over knowing that as many of my
transactions as possible have been replicated.

JD

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