Re: Streaming replication status

From: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Streaming replication status
Date: 2010-01-12 04:21:29
Message-ID: 4B4BF8C9.9030107@2ndquadrant.com
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Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> What could happen is that the standby could slowly lag behind master. We
>> don't have any way of monitoring that, as yet. Setting ps display is not
>> enough here.
>>
>
> I agree that the statistical information about replication activity is
> very useful. But I think that it's not an urgent issue. Shall we think
> it later?
>

I don't think anybody can deploy this feature without at least some very
basic monitoring here. I like the basic proposal you made back in
September for adding a pg_standbys_xlog_location to replace what you
have to get from ps right now:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg00889.php

That's basic, but enough that people could get by for a V1.

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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com www.2ndQuadrant.com

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