On 2014-07-07 04:20:12 +0000, Rajeev rastogi wrote: > > On 04 July 2014 19:29, MauMau Wrote: > > > [How to fix] > > Of course, adding "-o '-c synchronous_commit=local'" or "-o '-c > > synchronous_standby_names='" to pg_ctl start in the recovery script > > would prevent the problem. > > > > But isn't there anything to fix in PostgreSQL? I think the doc needs > > improvement so that users won't misunderstand that only write > > transactions would block at commit. > > As of now there is no solution for this in PostgreSQL but I had submitted a > patch "Standalone synchronous master" in > 9.4 2014-01 CommitFest, which was rejected because of some issues. This patch > was meant to degrade the synchronous > level of master, if all synchronous standbys are down. > I plan to resubmit this with better design sometime in 9.5.
That seems to be more less orthogonal to the issue at hand. The problem here is that a readonly command lead to a wait. And even worse it was a command the user had no influence over. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers