> In fact, waiting for reply from standby server before acknowledging a commit > to the client is a bit pointless otherwise. It puts you in a strange > situation, where you're waiting for the commits in normal operation, but if > there's a network glitch or the standby goes down, you're willing to go > ahead without it. You get a high guarantee that your data is up-to-date in > the standby, except when it isn't. Which isn't much of a guarantee.
It protects you against a catastrophic loss of the primary, which is a non-trivial consideration. At the risk of being ghoulish, imagine that you are a large financial company headquartered in the world trade center. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
