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[Pavel Ivanov <pivanof@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Kristian!
>
> On Nov 14, Kristian Nielsen wrote:
>> Pavel Ivanov <pivanof@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > So basically my question is: if I prepare a patch that will restore
>> > the original behavior of semi-sync replication (and remove the tests
>> > added for Bug#45672) will that be acceptable for MariaDB?
>>
>> I don't have anything against it, as I said I do not have much opinion
>> on semi-sync one way or the other.
>>
>> But I would like to hear at least one other opinion (Serg maybe?)
>
> I don't have it. I think semi-sync is a pretty fragile hack that simply
> cannot work correctly in the general case - at best it can work for
> someone in special use cases. Thus I don't care much what the subset of
> these cases is, and I don't have anything against your proposed change.

Do you think "smart semi-sync replication"
(https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-162) will be better and
will work in general case?


Pavel