Re: remove pg_standby?

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 11/10/2014 10:54 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
>>> pg_standby is more configurable than the built-in standby_mode=on. You can
>>> set the sleep time, for example, while standby_mode=on uses a hard-coded
>>> delay of 5 s. And pg_standby has a configurable maximum wait time. And as
>>> Fujii pointed out, the built-in system will print an annoying message to the
>>> log every time it attempts to restore a file. Nevertheless, 99% of users
>>> would probably be happy with the built-in thing.
>>
>> As long as pg_standby has features that are actually useful and that
>> are not in the built-in system, we shouldn't remove it. We should,
>> however, try to fix those in the main system so we can get rid of it
>> after that :)
>
> As of current 9.5, we have configurable retries and standby delay in
> mainstream. Is there some reason we still need pg_standby?

Yes, it's not easy to perform "fast failover" without pg_standby for now.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao