even more questions on replication and expire

[Bron Gondwana]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:09:05PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Bron Gondwana wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:16:01PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
>>> Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>>> In the course of setting up delayed expunge on our production 
>>>> server I came across the following;
>>>>
>>>> - With delayed_expunge on the master, messages that are expunged by 
>>>> a user will be retained -X days on the master but immideately 
>>>> deleted on the replica unless it has delayed_expunge too.
>>>>
>>>> So if I implement delayed_expunge on the replica, do I need 
>>>> cyr_expire to permanently remove messages after -X days or will 
>>>> sync_client do that?
>>> yes
>>
>> That's "yes" to "you need to run cyr_expire on the replica too".
>
> Thanks for the info. I can't help wonder if this was a firm design  
> decision? From a user perspective it should be easier if this followed  
> the synchronization I believe.
>
> Anyway, thanks, that was the last piece needed to finish off.

I would much prefer that it was done via synchronisation as well.  It's
a pain from a consistency point of view.

But there you go.

Bron.