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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Andrey Borodin <[email protected]>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <[email protected]>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: An attempt to avoid locally-committed-but-not-replicated-to-standby-transactions in synchronous replication
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:55:07 -0500
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On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 11:26:50AM -0800, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> Some funny stuff. If a user tries to cancel a non-replicated transaction
> Azure Postgres will answer: "user requested cancel while waiting for
> synchronous replication ack. The COMMIT record has already flushed to
> WAL locally and might not have been replicatead to the standby. We
> must wait here."
> AWS RDS will answer: "ignoring request to cancel wait for synchronous
> replication"
> Yandex Managed Postgres will answer: "canceling wait for synchronous
> replication due requested, but cancelation is not allowed. The
> transaction has already committed locally and might not have been
> replicated to the standby. We must wait here."
> 
> So, for many services providing Postgres as a service it's only a
> matter of wording.

Wow, you are telling me all three cloud vendors changed how query cancel
behaves on an unresponsive synchronous replica?  That is certainly a
testament that the community needs to change or at least review our
behavior.

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  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        https://momjian.us
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