On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Kevin Grittner
<kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> Simon Riggs  wrote:
>
>> I'm surprised that a network roundtrip takes less time than the
>> backend takes to mark clog and then queue for the SyncRepLock.
>
> I'm not surprised by that at all.  Some of our replication involves
> Gb or faster connections on the same LAN segment (sometimes on the
> same switch).
>
> That's rather beside the point though -- on a busy system a process
> can get starved long enough to make some seemingly improbably timings
> occur.  PostgreSQL shouldn't fall over just because the load gets
> heavy enough to cause such timings.  A race condition is a race
> condition.

That has been fixed, without discussion. The discussion was about ...,
well, something else.

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