On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 05:39:23PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > On 8 January 2014 09:07, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote: > > > I'm going to say right off the bat that I think the whole notion to > > automatically disable synchronous replication when the standby goes down is > > completely bonkers. > > Agreed > > We had this discussion across 3 months and we don't want it again. > This should not have been added as a TODO item.
I am glad Heikki and Simon agree, but I don't. ;-) The way that I understand it is that you might want durability, but might not want to sacrifice availability. Phrased that way, it makes sense, and notifying the administrator seems the appropriate action. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers