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 22:59:06
Message-ID: 52D07B3A.5010504@commandprompt.com
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On 01/10/2014 02:47 PM, Andres Freund wrote:

> Really, the commits themselves are sent to the server at exactly the
> same speed independent of sync/async. The only thing that's delayed is
> the *notificiation* of the client that sent the commit. Not the commit
> itself.

Which is irrelevant to the point that if the standby goes down, we are
now out of business.

Any continuous replication should not be a SPOF. The current behavior
guarantees that a two node sync cluster is a SPOF. The proposed behavior
removes that.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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