Re: Keepalive for max_standby_delay - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:51 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:

> Is it OK that this keepalive message cannot be used by HS in file-based
> log-shipping? Even in SR, the startup process cannot use the keepalive
> until walreceiver has been started up.

Yes, I see those things. 

We already have archive_timeout to handle the keepalive case in
file-based. 

When starting up the delay is high anyway, so doesn't really matter
about accuracy - though we do use latestXLogTime in that cases.

> WalSndKeepAlive() always calls initStringInfo(), which seems to cause
> memory-leak.

Thanks.

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