Re: DDL Damage Assessment

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DDL Damage Assessment
Date: 2014-10-02 21:10:01
Message-ID: CAM3SWZTt4nrK7nnmsw2JBVq8hbtY+rU7P-mH=pdO0OAo0Z-Z9Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I've done that manually (throw the DDL, and cancel if it takes more
> than a couple of seconds) on modest but relatively busy servers with
> quite some success.

Fair enough, but that isn't the same as NOWAIT. It's something we'd
have a hard time coming up with a general-purpose timeout for.

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Peter Geoghegan

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