pgsql: Improve replication connection timeouts.

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Improve replication connection timeouts.
Date: 2012-10-11 14:52:17
Message-ID: E1TMK7V-0003sC-0u@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Improve replication connection timeouts.

Rename replication_timeout to wal_sender_timeout, and add a new setting
called wal_receiver_timeout that does the same at the walreceiver side.
There was previously no timeout in walreceiver, so if the network went down,
for example, the walreceiver could take a long time to notice that the
connection was lost. Now with the two settings, both sides of a replication
connection will detect a broken connection similarly.

It is no longer necessary to manually set wal_receiver_status_interval to
a value smaller than the timeout. Both wal sender and receiver now
automatically send a "ping" message if more than 1/2 of the configured
timeout has elapsed, and it hasn't received any messages from the other end.

Amit Kapila, heavily edited by me.

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6f60fdd7015b032bf49273c99f80913d57eac284

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 36 ++++++----
doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml | 2 +-
src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++----
src/backend/replication/walsender.c | 88 +++++++++++++++---------
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c | 15 ++++-
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 5 +-
src/include/replication/walprotocol.h | 12 +++
src/include/replication/walreceiver.h | 2 +
src/include/replication/walsender.h | 2 +-
src/include/replication/walsender_private.h | 1 -
10 files changed, 190 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

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