Re: Synchronous replication

Joshua Tolley wrote:
> Perhaps I'm hijacking the wrong thread for this, but I wonder if the quorum
> idea is really the best thing for us.
For reference: it appeared in a long thread a while ago 
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-05/msg01226.php.
> In short, there are three different modes: availability,
> performance, and protection. "Protection" appears to mean that at least one
> standby has applied the log; "availability" means at least one standby has
> received the log info
>   
Maybe we could do both, by describing use cases along the availability, 
performance and protection setups in the documentation and how they 
would be reflected with the standby related parameters.

regards,
Yeb Havinga