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From: SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <[email protected]>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <[email protected]>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: An attempt to avoid locally-committed-but-not-replicated-to-standby-transactions in synchronous replication
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:42:01 -0800
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 8:29 AM Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 08:14:10AM -0800, SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM wrote:
> >     2. Process proc die immediately when a backend is waiting for sync
> >     replication acknowledgement, as it does today, however, upon restart,
> >     don't open up for business (don't accept ready-only connections)
> >     unless the sync standbys have caught up.
> >
> >
> > Are you planning to block connections or queries to the database? It
> would be
> > good to allow connections and let them query the monitoring views but
> block the
> > queries until sync standby have caught up. Otherwise, this leaves a
> monitoring
> > hole. In cloud, I presume superusers are allowed to connect and monitor
> (end
> > customers are not the role members and can't query the data). The same
> can't be
> > true for all the installations. Could you please add more details on your
> > approach?
>
> I think ALTER SYSTEM should be allowed, particularly so you can modify
> synchronous_standby_names, no?


Yes, Change in synchronous_standby_names is expected in this situation.
IMHO, blocking all the connections is not a recommended approach.


>
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>   Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        https://momjian.us
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>
> Embrace your flaws.  They make you human, rather than perfect,
> which you will never be.
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