Re: Constant WAL replay - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Constant WAL replay
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Msg-id 200504250118.j3P1IDq14997@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Constant WAL replay  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>
> >>Very close. We don't use the WAL (yet, slated for probably 8.1) but we
> >>do use a transaction log shipping method. So the implementation is 
> >>almost the same.
> > 
> > 
> > Can you run queries on the slave?  If so, how do you handle xid collisions?
> 
> You can run any query that does not modify data on a replicated table. 
> You can run any non data modifying query on any of the tables.

So, do you modify the slave to prevent it from grabbing an xid?

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