On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Synchronous replication implies that a commit should wait. This wait is
> experienced by the transaction, not by other parts of the system. If we
> define robustness at the standby level then robustness depends upon
> unseen administrators, as well as the current up/down state of standbys.
> This is action-at-a-distance in its worst form.
Maybe, but I can't help thinking people are going to want some form of
this. The case where someone wants to do sync rep to the machine in
the next rack over and async rep to a server at a remote site seems
too important to ignore.
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