Re: Review: Hot standby - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Review: Hot standby
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Msg-id 26392.1227888883@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Review: Hot standby  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Review: Hot standby  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> After some thought, the way I would handle this is by sending a slightly
> different kind of signal.

> We can send a shared invalidation message which means "end the
> transaction, whether or not you are currently running a statement".

No, a thousand times no.  The sinval queue is an *utterly* inappropriate
mechanism for such a thing.
        regards, tom lane


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