On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 05:39:23PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 8 January 2014 09:07, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm going to say right off the bat that I think the whole notion to
> > automatically disable synchronous replication when the standby goes down is
> > completely bonkers.
>
> Agreed
>
> We had this discussion across 3 months and we don't want it again.
> This should not have been added as a TODO item.
I am glad Heikki and Simon agree, but I don't. ;-)
The way that I understand it is that you might want durability, but
might not want to sacrifice availability. Phrased that way, it makes
sense, and notifying the administrator seems the appropriate action.
-- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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