Re: Hot Standby and handling max_standby_delay - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 20:50 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> That would change the meaning of max_standby_delay. Currently, it's the
> delay between *generating* and applying a WAL record, your proposal
> would change it to mean delay between receiving and applying it. That
> seems a lot less useful to me.

It would be good if there was a keepalive WAL record with a timestamp on
it generated every N seconds while in streaming mode.

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