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

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 08:28 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> No.

How accurate is this now? With regard to remaining items of work.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication

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