On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 22:47 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> It's not quite that simple. Setting max_standby_delay=5mins means that
> you're willing to wait 5 minutes for each query to die. Which means that
> in worst case you have to stop for 5 minutes at every single vacuum
> record, and fall behind much more than 5 minutes.
Just trying to follow along: are you talking about the situation where
there are (for example) a continuous stream of "select pg_sleep(600)" on
the standby, and a series of rapid VACUUMs on the primary?
This situation might be more likely now that we have partial VACUUMs.
> It should also be noted that the control functions allow you to connect
> to the database and manually pause/resume the replay. So you can for
> example set max_standby_delay=0 during the day, but pause the replay
> manually before starting a nightly report.
>
That's a very cool feature.
Regards,Jeff Davis
