On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:34:59PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> 
> >> To achieve that, I'm thinking to change walsender so that, when the
> >> standby
> >> has caught up with the master, it sends back the message indicating that
> >> to
> >> the standby. And I'm thinking to add new function (or view like
> >> pg_stat_replication)
> >> available on the standby, which shows that info.
> >
> > By the time the standby has received that message, it might not be caught-up
> > anymore because new WAL might've been generated in the master already.
> 
> AFAICS, this is an exact case of the Byzantine General's problem.

Have they updated it to acknowledge that the city is now called
Istanbul?

Cheers,
David.
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