> I wonder if it would be possible to jigger things so that we send the > WAL to the standby as soon as it is generated, but somehow arrange > things so that the standby knows the last location that the master has > fsync'd and never applies beyond that point.
I can't think of any way which would not require major engineering. And you'd be slowing down replication *in general* to deal with a fairly unlikely corner case. I think the panic is the way to go. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers