On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 17:56 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Andres Freund ([email protected]) wrote: > > That's why you should configure a second standby as another (candidate) > > synchronous replica, also listed in synchronous_standby_names. > > Perhaps we should stress in the docs that this is, in fact, the *only* > reasonable mode in which to run with sync rep on? Where there are > multiple replicas, because otherwise Drake is correct that you'll just > end up having both nodes go offline if the slave fails.
It's not unreasonable to run with only two if the writers are consuming from a reliable message queue (or another system that maintains its own reliable persistence). Then you can just continue processing messages after you have repaired your replication pair. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
