In general, unless an application is explicitly designed to allow an RPC to be retried, it's not safe to do so. As a result, we wanted service owners to make an explicit choice about which ones they deem safe to retry, rather than accidentally configuring retries in a case where it's not safe.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:05 PM alun via grpc.io <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a query about: > > When gRPC receives a non-OK response status from a server, this status is >> checked against the set of retryable status codes in retryableStatusCodes >> to determine if a retry attempt should be made. > > > I was wondering why it wasn't chosen to have a set of fatalStatusCodes, to > determine if a retry attempt should not be made ? > > - Especially with respect to Postel's law. > > thanks, > > A. > > > On Friday, February 10, 2017 at 4:31:01 PM UTC-8, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> I've created a gRFC describing the design and implementation plan for >> gRPC Retries. >> >> Take a look at the gRPC on Github >> <https://github.com/grpc/proposal/pull/12>. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > grpc.io" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/b78c2861-49ea-4fe3-a0dd-70e5ed199432%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/b78c2861-49ea-4fe3-a0dd-70e5ed199432%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Mark D. Roth <[email protected]> Software Engineer Google, Inc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/CAJgPXp7_9vhjoJEy%2Bb-t%2B70ooZwbZ8FWZte2wiL93M1LAAN6hg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
