Re: Support for N synchronous standby servers - take 2

Hello,

> I don't think that this is going in the good direction, what was 
> suggested mainly by Robert was to use a micro-language that would 
> allow far more extensibility that what you are proposing. 

I agree, the micro-language would give far more extensibility. However, as
stated ibefore, the previous discussions concluded that GUC was a preferred
way because it is more user-friendly.

> See for 
> example [hidden email]
> for some ideas. IMO, before writing any patch in this area we should 
> find a clear consensus on what we want to do. Also, unrelated to this 
> patch, we should really get first the patch implementing the... Hum... 
> infrastructure for regression tests regarding replication and 
> archiving to be able to have actual tests for this feature (working on 
> it for next CF). 

We could decide and work on patch for n-sync along with setting up
regression test infrastructure. 

> At quick glance, this looks problematic to me if application_name has an
> hyphen. 

Yes, I overlooked the fact that application name could have a hyphen. This
can be modified.

Regards,

Beena Emerson



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