Re: Synchronization levels in SR

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 07:10 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:

> OK.  In words of one syllable, your way still has all the same knobs,
> plus some more.

I explained how the per-standby settings would take many parameters,
whereas per-transaction settings take far fewer.

> You sketched out a design which still had a per-standby setting for
> each standby, but IN ADDITION had a setting for a setting to control
> quorum commit[1].

No, you misread it. Again. The parameters were not IN ADDITION -
obviously so, otherwise I wouldn't claim there were fewer, would I?

Your reply has again avoided the subject of how we would handle failure
modes with per-standby settings. That is important.

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