Re: Re: BUG #13685: Archiving while idle every archive_timeout with wal_level hot_standby

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: BUG #13685: Archiving while idle every archive_timeout with wal_level hot_standby
Date: 2015-11-06 16:42:56
Message-ID: CA+TgmobZ8J4zW-j4Kh6O+H=GceCDmANvRyZ09K69BJG8mJf_vw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I have as well thought a bit about adding a space-related constraint
> on the standby snapshot generated by the bgwriter, so as to not rely
> entirely on the interval of 15s. I finished with the attached that
> uses a check based on CheckPointSegments / 8 to be sure that at least
> this number of segments has been generated since the last checkpoint
> before logging a new snapshot. I guess that's less brittle than the
> last patch. Thoughts?

I can't see why that would be a good idea. My understanding is that
the logical decoding code needs to get those messages pretty
regularly, and I don't see why that need would be reduced on systems
where CheckPointSegments is large.

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Robert Haas
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