Re: DRAFT 9.6 release

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)" <bnicholson(at)hpe(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DRAFT 9.6 release
Date: 2016-09-02 00:45:21
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQEotArpda90uc_d__Bjt+vM+LHUJw6ZzpgC9XA7D4ZsQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 09/01/2016 04:56 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Yes, the case described by Josh is rather narrow as most users are not
>> going to use the same application_name for multiple standbys. Combined
>> with synchronous_commit = remote_apply what you actually have is the
>> guarantee that WAL has been applied synchronously to multiple nodes,
>> allowing for read balancing.
>
> It's not narrow if you think of it this way:
> 2 ( north_carolina, oregon, californa )

Yes.

> That is, if each pseudo-group is a data center, then that arrangement
> makes a lot of sense. Oh, well, waiting for 10.

I was referring to the wait behavior where multiple standbys use the
same application_name, which is what you complained about AFAIK.
--
Michael

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