Re: synchronous_commit and remote_write

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:04:46PM -0400, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > It seems pretty confusing that synchronous_commit = 'remote_write' means
> > write confirmed to the remote socket, not write to the file system.  Is
> > there no better term we could some up with?  remote_pipe?
> > remote_transfer?
> 
> remote_accept?
> 
> And then, I could envision (if it continues down this road):
>   off
>   local
>   remote_accept
>   remote_write
>   remote_sync
>   remote_apply (implies visible to new connections on the standby)
> 
> Not saying all off these are necessarily worth it, but they are all
> the various "stages" of WAL processing on the remote...

The _big_ problem with "write" is that we might need that someday to
indicate some other kind of write, e.g. write to kernel, fsync to disk.

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