Re: DRAFT 9.6 release

On Fri, Sep  2, 2016 at 07:50:58AM +0530, Robert Haas wrote:
> But if you have BOTH features, then you can set
> synchronous_standby_names to require an ACK from *every* standby, and
> you can set synchronous_commit=remote_apply so that you wait for WAL
> to be applied, not just fsync'd, and now you are guaranteed that
> whenever you make a change on the master and then read it back from
> any one of your read-replicas, it will be there!  And that, IMHO, is
> pretty cool.

Are we clear on how useful this will be because of the delay in applying
WAL, particularly for when conflicting read-only queries are running?

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