Re: New sync commit mode remote_write

On 4/19/12, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
> The work around would be for the master to refuse to automatically
> restart after a crash, insisting on a fail-over instead (or a manual
> forcing of recovery)?

I suppose that would work, but I think Simon's idea is better: don't
let the slave replay the WAL until either (a) it's promoted or (b) the
master finishes the fsync.   That boils down to adding some more
handshaking to the replication protocol, I think.

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