> Having said that, I do think we urgently need some high-level design > discussion on how sync rep is actually going to handle this issue > (perhaps on a new thread). If we can't resolve this issue, sync rep > is going to be really slow; but there are no easy solutions to this > problem in sight, so if we want to have sync rep for 9.1 we'd better > agree on one of the difficult solutions soon so that work can begin. >
When standbys reconnect after a crash, they could send the ahead-of-the-master WAL to the master. This is an alternative to choosing the most-ahead standby as the new master, as suggested elsewhere. Greetings Marcin Mańk -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers