On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 20:19 +0100, Markus Wanner wrote:
> Simon,
>
> On 03/18/2011 05:19 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> >>> Simon Riggs<simon@2ndQuadrant.com> wrote:
> >>>> In PostgreSQL other users cannot observe the commit until an
> >>>> acknowledgement has been received.
>
> On other nodes as well? To me that means the standby needs to hold back
> COMMIT of an ACKed transaction, until receives a re-ACK from the master,
> that it committed the transaction there. How else could the slave know
> when to commit its ACKed transactions?
We could do that easily enough, actually, if we wished.
Do we wish?
> > No, only in the case where you choose not to failover to the standby
> > when you crash, which would be a fairly strange choice after the effort
> > to set up the standby. In a correctly configured and operated cluster
> > what I say above is fully correct and needs no addendum.
>
> If you don't failover, how can the standby be ahead of the master, given
> it takes measures not to be during normal operation?
>
> Eager to understand... ;-)
>
> Regards
>
> Markus
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