Re: wal_sender_delay is still required?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: wal_sender_delay is still required?
Date: 2010-12-07 05:22:14
Message-ID: 14769.1291699334@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Maybe we should have a single tunable for processes that just sleep
> waiting for events or postmaster death. For example pgstats has a
> hardcoded 2 seconds, and the archiver process has a hardcoded value too
> AFAICS.

That would make sense once we get to the point where for all of those
processes, the sleep delay *only* affects the time to notice postmaster
death. Right now I think there are still several other behaviors mixed
in with that, and not all of them necessarily want the same response
time.

regards, tom lane

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