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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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A standby is an exact copy of the master. But how do you synchronize things so that the query results you get from a standby are guaranteed to be the same as you'd get from the master? Well, that in itself is not possible. It's just the physics of an eventually consistent system. We need it to be eventually consistent because otherwise, the synchronization would become a performance bottleneck.

What we can do is synchronize two requests on different servers, for example, if we wish to issue a write on the master and then later issue a read from a standby. Such a case is automatically handled by synchronous replication. If we aren't using sync rep, then we can wait for the standby to catch up with an action on the master, remembering ...

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