On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> wrote:
> Perhaps it would be possible to keep older copies of pages around when there are older transactions running on the standby?

I've thought about that... it's basically a rollback segment, which
for that matter might be judged superior to what we do on the master
(i.e. VACUUM).  Needless to say, that would be just a teensy bit more
work than we're likely to have time for in 9.2.  But maybe for 10.2...

-- 
Robert Haas
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