Re: Checking for stale reads on hot standby

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Yang Zhang <yanghatespam(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Checking for stale reads on hot standby
Date: 2010-09-27 00:20:29
Message-ID: AANLkTi=jgnO5neqzcoJ3+zjuP0Z5BxMFv0+DcxG+SGCo@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> See the nuggets hidden in section 25.2.5.2. "Monitoring" at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/warm-standby.html#STREAMING-REPLICATION
>
> After an UPDATE, your application can cache the info from
> 'pg_current_xlog_location()' result on the primary and then compare that
> with the result of  'pg_last_xlog_receive_location()' on the standby to see
> if it is seeing fresh enough data.

Yep, but since recovery might fall behind WAL receiving,
pg_last_xlog_replay_location should be called instead of
pg_last_xlog_receive_location.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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