Re: Patch for fail-back without fresh backup

On 2013-10-08 15:07:02 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Sawada Masahiko <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > I attached the v12 patch which have modified based on above suggestions.
> >
> 
> There are still some parts of this design/patch which I am concerned about.
> 
> 1. The design clubs synchronous standby and failback safe standby rather
> very tightly. IIRC this is based on the feedback you received early, so my
> apologies for raising it again so late.

It is my impression that there still are several people having pretty
fundamental doubts about this approach in general. From what I remember
neither Heikki, Simon, Tom nor me were really convinced about this
approach.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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