On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
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> The best parameter we can specify is the number of servers that we wish
> to wait for confirmation from. That is a definition that easily manages
> the complexity of having various servers up/down at any one time. It
> also survives misconfiguration more easily, as well as providing a
> workaround if replicating across a bursty network where we can't
> guarantee response times, even of the typical response time is good.
>
This may be an incredibly naive question, but what happens to the
transaction on the master if the number of confirmations is not
received? Is this intended to create a situation where the master
effectively becomes unavailable for write operations when its
synchronous slaves are unavailable?
Alastair "Bell" Turner
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