Re: Summary and Plan for Hot Standby

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Summary and Plan for Hot Standby
Date: 2009-11-15 19:29:34
Message-ID: 1258313374.14054.2552.camel@ebony
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On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 20:37 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
> > But a
> > query getting canceled because it touches a lot of tables sounds more
> > like a limitation than an outright bug,
>
> It's not that the query might get canceled. It will abort WAL recovery,
> kill all backends, and bring the whole standby down.

Hmm, I think the incredible exploding Hot Standby is overstating this
somewhat. We can improve the error handling for this rare case for which
a simple workaround exists, but it seems like we should punt to phase 2.

You agree there should be two phases?

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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