* Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> [100226 23:39]:
> Just not having the actual query running on the master is such a
> reduction in damage that I think it's delivering the essence of what
> people are looking for regardless. That it might be possible in some
> cases to additionally avoid the overhead that comes along with any
> long-running query is a nice bonus, and it's great the design allows for
> that possibility. But if that's only possible with risk, heavy
> tweaking, and possibly some hacks, I'm not sure that's making the right
> trade-offs for everyone.
Would we (ya, the royal we) be willing to say that if you want the
benifit of removing the MVCC overhead of long-running queries you need
to run PITR backup/archive recovery, and if you want SR, you get a
closed-loop master-follows-save-xmin behaviour?
a.
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