Re: Streaming Replication docs

Fujii Masao wrote:
> We might need to add the following code of pg_standby into the core,
> to prefer it for many cases.
>
>> #ifdef WIN32
>>
>> /*
>> * Windows 'cp' sets the final file size before the copy is
>> * complete, and not yet ready to be opened by pg_standby. So we
>> * wait for sleeptime secs before attempting to restore. If that
>> * is not enough, we will rely on the retry/holdoff mechanism.
>> * GNUWin32's cp does not have this problem.
>> */
>> pg_usleep(sleeptime * 1000000L);
>> #endif

That's actually a bit questionable, always has been even in pg_standby.
It adds a constant 1 s delay to the recovery each WAL file, which
effectively rate-limits the WAL recovery to 16MB per second. I think we
should rather add a warning to the docs, suggesting the copy-then-rename
method on Windows.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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