Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 23:55 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > >From the perspective of an observer, randomly selecting a standby for
> > load balancing purposes: No, they are not guaranteed to see the "latest"
> > answer, nor even can they find out whether what they are seeing is the
> > latest answer.
> 
> To guarantee that each standby returns the same result, we would need to
> use the cluster-wide snapshot to run queries. IIRC, Postgres-XC provides
> that feature. Though I'm not sure if it can be applied in HS/SR.

That is my understanding.

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