Re: Support for N synchronous standby servers - take 2

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Support for N synchronous standby servers - take 2
Date: 2015-06-28 12:11:38
Message-ID: CAB7nPqSaucq8mMsrEh7kn7Ha4q5XKvBzmb-+TLFqKNaOoAO77w@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Finally, while I'm raining on everyone's parade: the mechanism of
> identifying synchronous replicas by setting the application_name on the
> replica is confusing and error-prone; if we're building out synchronous
> replication into a sophisticated system, we ought to think about
> replacing it.

I assume that you do not refer to a new parameter in the connection
string like node_name, no? Are you referring to an extension of
START_REPLICATION in the replication protocol to pass an ID?
--
Michael

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