Re: Deriving Recovery Snapshots

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Deriving Recovery Snapshots
Date: 2008-10-22 14:53:38
Message-ID: 1224687218.27145.344.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:40 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > If that makes snapshot overflow,
> > we have a big problem: we would be forced to say "sorry snapshot cannot
> > be issued at this time, please wait". Ugh!
>
> BTW, we'll need to do that anyway, if we guess the max_connections
> setting in the master incorrectly. We should avoid having to do that
> under other circumstances, of course.

I'm sure it's easier to handle that in easier ways. I imagined we would
just issue a message saying "must increase max_connections" and then
shutdown. It's easy enough to document that if you change the master you
must also change the slave - it's not a very common change after all.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

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