Re: DRAFT 9.6 release

Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sep 3, 2016, at 1:39 AM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep  2, 2016 at 07:50:58AM +0530, Robert Haas wrote:
>> But if you have BOTH features, then you can set
>> synchronous_standby_names to require an ACK from *every* standby, and
>> you can set synchronous_commit=remote_apply so that you wait for WAL
>> to be applied, not just fsync'd, and now you are guaranteed that
>> whenever you make a change on the master and then read it back from
>> any one of your read-replicas, it will be there!  And that, IMHO, is
>> pretty cool.
> 
> Are we clear on how useful this will be because of the delay in applying
> WAL, particularly for when conflicting read-only queries are running?

Not entirely, but people are already doing read-scaling with replicas, so having an option to make that reliable seems like a good thing.

...Robert

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