On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:24:55PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Joshua Tolley <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> -    Queries executed on the standby will be correct with regard to the 
> >> transactions
> >> -    that had been recovered at the start of the query, or start of first 
> >> statement
> >> -    in the case of serializable transactions. In comparison with the 
> >> primary,
> >> -    the standby returns query results that could have been obtained on 
> >> the primary
> >> -    at some moment in the past.
> >> +    Queries executed on the standby will see a view of the database that
> >> +    existed on the master at some moment in the past.
> >
> > Is it really that non-deterministic? /me admits not having followed that
> > discussion. Although the original version is pretty complex, it gives the 
> > user
> > some feel for the particular moment in the past that their snapshot will
> > represent. If the original is incorrect, it would be nice to replace it with
> > something that doesn't suggest the user might end up with a snapshot from 
> > last
> > week.
> 
> I had another go at this.

Much better, IMO.

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Joshua Tolley / eggyknap
End Point Corporation
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