Re: Hot standby and b-tree killed items

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Hot standby and b-tree killed items
Date: 2008-12-24 04:59:24
Message-ID: 200812232359.24699.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Friday 19 December 2008 19:36:42 Simon Riggs wrote:
> Perhaps we should listen to the people that have said they don't want
> queries cancelled, even if the alternative is inconsistent answers. That
> is easily possible yet is not currently an option. Plus we have the
> option I referred to up thread, which is to defer query cancel until the
> query reads a modified data block. I'm OK with implementing either of
> those, as non-default options. Do we need those options or are we ok?
>

Haven't seen any feed back on this, but I think the two options of cancel
query for replay, and pause replay for queries, are probably enough for a
first go around (especially if you can get the query canceling to work only
when changes are made to the specific database in question)

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