Re: Transaction-controlled robustness for replication

On 7/22/08, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>  We could represent this with 3 parameters:
>  synchronous_commit = on | off
>  synchronous_standby_transfer = on | off
>  synchronous_standby_wal_fsync = on | off
>
>  If we are able to define these robustness characteristics for each
>  transaction *separately* then it will represent an industry first: no
>  other database has that capability implemented or planned on published
>  roadmaps, nor has it been discussed in research to my knowledge.
>
>  Changing the parameter setting at transaction-level would be expensive
>  if we had to set three parameters.

How about extending BEGIN.with additional keywords?

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marko