Re: DRAFT 9.6 release

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 03:22:18PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> So that's usually what I mean when I say quorum commit.  But apparently
> our feature does something slightly different?
>
> "For example, a setting of 3 (s1, s2, s3, s4) makes transaction commits
> wait until their WAL records are received by three higher-priority
> standbys chosen from standby servers s1, s2, s3 and s4"
>
> What does that mean exactly?  If I do:
>
> 3 ( s1, s2, s3, s4, s5 )
>
> And a commit is ack'd by s2, s3, and s5, what happens?

As I understand it, it can continue with those three servers sending a
confirmation back.

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