Re: Checkpointer on hot standby runs without looking checkpoint_segments

On 8 June 2012 09:14, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:

> Hello, I will make this patch start again for this CF.
>
> The requirement for this patch is as follows.
>
> - What I want to get is similarity of the behaviors between
>  master and (hot-)standby concerning checkpoint
>  progression. Specifically, checkpoints for streaming
>  replication running at the speed governed with
>  checkpoint_segments. The work of this patch is avoiding to get
>  unexpectedly large number of WAL segments stay on standby
>  side. (Plus, increasing the chance to skip recovery-end
>  checkpoint by my another patch.)

I think we need to be clearer about this:

I reject this patch and am moving to rejected on the CF manager.

The "increase chance to skip recovery end checkpoint" is completely
gone as a reason to do this (see other thread).

Plus the premise that we want more restartpoints is wrong, with
reasons explained by Heikki, in detail, months ago.

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