Re: Avoid full page images in streaming replication?

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Avoid full page images in streaming replication?
Date: 2015-10-22 22:59:06
Message-ID: 56296A3A.5090403@BlueTreble.com
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On 10/22/15 5:52 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> If the receiver didn't write the WAL before processing it then it can just
>> >stick the page image into the WAL it's writing for itself. Probably not good
>> >for syncrep, but I don't think you'd want this on for syncrep anyway.
> To me this sounds like a recipe for disaster (i.e. complex bugs). WAL
> (and thus CRC checksums) differing between nodes. Ugh.

The WAL would *not* differ. This would only affect streaming
replication, and only the stream itself.
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Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
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