On 5/20/2010 10:48 AM, Cyril Scetbon wrote:
> But this is a receiver and I saw in the code of  function 
> generate_sync_event that it does not generate sync interval on a node 
> which is not the origin of a set. That's why I presume there is no sync 
> created except the one created at startup (mandatory) in syncThread_main :

 From the CVS log:

> ----------------------------
> revision 1.19
> date: 2007-03-14 15:59:32 +0000;  author: cbbrowne;  state: Exp;  lines: +20 -6;
> Reduce the quantity of spurious events generated:
> 
> 1.  generate_sync_event() only needs to generate a SYNC on a node
>     that is the origin for a set
> 
> 2.  sync thread generates a SYNC when it starts; in later iterations,
>     it will only generate a SYNC for its node if that node is the origin
>     for a replication set
> 
> Per discussions with Jan Wieck on 2007-02-09; this seemed an experiment
> worth trying.  I tried it, and the tests run fine, so I'm committing this.
> ----------------------------

Seems we finally found a reason why this isn't such a good idea after 
all. Question now is do we want to revert back to the default, where 
slon's of pure receivers create useless SYNC events or not?


Jan

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