Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Send new protocol keepalive messages to standby servers.

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Send new protocol keepalive messages to standby servers.
>> Allows streaming replication users to calculate transfer latency
>> and apply delay via internal functions. No external functions yet.
>
> Is there plan to implement such external functions before 9.2 release?
> If not, keepalive protocol seems to be almost useless because there is
> no use of it for a user and the increase in the number of packets might
> increase the replication performance overhead slightly. No?

Good point. IMHO, this shouldn't really have been committed like
this, but since it was, we had better fix it, either by reverting the
change or forcing an initdb to expose the functionality.

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