Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make fast promotion the default promotion mode.

On 1 May 2013 11:25, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Make fast promotion the default promotion mode.
>> Continue to allow a request for synchronous
>> checkpoints as a mechanism in case of problems.
>
> Is there clean way to request synchronous checkpoint at the standby promotion?
> I'm sure that we can do that by creating the file "promote" and
> sending the SIGUSR1
> signal to the postmaster. Or by using previous version of pg_ctl.
> These are not clean
> and would confuse users.

I just removed the user interface at Heikki's request, so yes, I can
see its not ideal interface.

My wish was to have a mechanism should we need it.

A third option would be to not have any way at all.

What is your preference?


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