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

On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 22:57 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> 
> > It would be good if there was a keepalive WAL record with a
> timestamp on it generated every N seconds while in streaming mode.
> 
> Yeah, that would help. In streaming replication we could also send
> such timestamp as a separate message, not within WAL.

Is that something you're working on?

Do we need a new record type for that, is there a handy record type to
bounce from?

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