Re: Constant WAL replay

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, eg(at)cybertec(dot)at
Subject: Re: Constant WAL replay
Date: 2005-04-25 01:18:13
Message-ID: 200504250118.j3P1IDq14997@candle.pha.pa.us
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>
> >>Very close. We don't use the WAL (yet, slated for probably 8.1) but we
> >>do use a transaction log shipping method. So the implementation is
> >>almost the same.
> >
> >
> > Can you run queries on the slave? If so, how do you handle xid collisions?
>
> You can run any query that does not modify data on a replicated table.
> You can run any non data modifying query on any of the tables.

So, do you modify the slave to prevent it from grabbing an xid?

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