Re: Support for N synchronous standby servers - take 2

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Michael Paquier
>> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yes, please let's use the custom language, and let's not care of not
>>> more than 1 level of nesting so as it is possible to represent
>>> pg_stat_replication in a simple way for the user.
>>
>> "not" is used twice in this sentence in a way that renders me not able
>> to be sure that I'm not understanding it not properly.
>
> 4 times here. Score beaten.
>
> Sorry. Perhaps I am tired... I was just wondering if it would be fine
> to only support configurations up to one level of nested objects, like
> that:
> 2[node1, node2, node3]
> node1, 2[node2, node3], node3
> In short, we could restrict things so as we cannot define a group of
> nodes within an existing group.

No, actually, that's stupid. Having up to two nested levels makes more
sense, a quite common case for this feature being something like that:
2{node1,[node2,node3]}
In short, sync confirmation is waited from node1 and (node2 or node3).

Flattening groups of nodes with a new catalog will be necessary to
ease the view of this data to users:
- group name?
- array of members with nodes/groups
- group type: quorum or priority
- number of items to wait for in this group
-- 
Michael