Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful
Date: 2010-05-03 17:02:47
Message-ID: 1272906167.4161.35009.camel@ebony
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On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:54 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:

> I'm not really sure how much serious testing outside of the small set of
> people mostly interested in one or another specific aspect of HS/SR has
> been actually done with the alphas to be honest.
> I just started testing HS yesterday and I already ran twice into the
> general issue tom is complaining about with max_standby_delay...

I guarantee that if that proposal goes in, people will complain about
that also. Last minute behaviour changes are bad news. I don't object to
adding something, just don't take anything away. It's not like the code
for it is pages long or anything.

The trade off is HA or queries and two modes make sense for user choice.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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