Re: Standalone synchronous master

On 01/10/2014 02:47 PM, Andres Freund wrote:

> Really, the commits themselves are sent to the server at exactly the
> same speed independent of sync/async. The only thing that's delayed is
> the *notificiation* of the client that sent the commit. Not the commit
> itself.

Which is irrelevant to the point that if the standby goes down, we are 
now out of business.

Any continuous replication should not be a SPOF. The current behavior 
guarantees that a two node sync cluster is a SPOF. The proposed behavior 
removes that.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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