Re: [HACKERS] make async slave to wait for lsn to be replayed

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Ivan Kartyshov <i(dot)kartyshov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] make async slave to wait for lsn to be replayed
Date: 2018-02-02 18:46:45
Message-ID: CA+Tgmoa_gosB4o3jPjs0AjQWuQ2747+3_Zk+Kzbar30+62FCzA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:46 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> In PG11, I propose the following command, sticking mostly to Ants'
> syntax, and allowing to wait for multiple events before it returns. It
> doesn't hold snapshot and will not get cancelled by Hot Standby.
>
> WAIT FOR event [, event ...] options
>
> event is
> LSN value
> TIMESTAMP value
>
> options
> TIMEOUT delay
> UNTIL TIMESTAMP timestamp
> (we have both, so people don't need to do math, they can use whichever
> they have)

WAIT FOR TIMEOUT sounds a lot like SELECT pg_sleep_for(), and WAIT
UNTIL TIMESTAMP sounds a lot like SELECT pg_sleep_until().

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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