Re: In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon)

From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon)
Date: 2008-04-21 14:56:21
Message-ID: 60abjnp88a.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com
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nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com (Csaba Nagy) writes:
> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 11:32 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com> wrote:
>> > > I am going to play with this and see where it breaks, but it's going to be
>> > > an enormous time investment to babysit it.
>
> One more suggestion: if you happen to use the alt_perl tools, be sure to
> uncomment/change the line:
>
> $SYNC_CHECK_INTERVAL = 1000;
>
> In my experience it made a big difference to set that to 60000 (meaning
> sync events created once per minute instead of once per second) for the
> synchronizing after copy phase. The number of events generated while the
> copy over is running can be so big that it will never get in sync again
> otherwise...

+1

I'm adding a note about that to the "best practices" in the admin guide.
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