Re: hot_standby = on - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: hot_standby = on
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Msg-id 1276125566.23257.1267.camel@ebony
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In response to Re: hot_standby = on  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 17:24 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Well, yes. But then to stop that you could just lock users out using 
> > pg_hba.conf, no? It just doesn't seem to be buying all that much to me. 
> 
> The main reason to turn it off is to disable a whole lot of very poorly
> tested code, and thereby improve the reliability of your warm standby
> server.  

> There might be (almost certainly are) significant performance
> benefits as well.

I would be happy to look over any performance results you have that show
this to be true. I only know of one area I thought was a significant
loss in some cases, which you canned because we had no evidence it was a
problem...

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com



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