Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> It is off-base. �The receiver does not "request" data, the sender is
>> what determines how much WAL is sent when.
> Hm, so what happens if the slave blocks, doesn't the sender block when
> the kernel buffers fill up?
Well, if the slave can't keep up, that's a separate problem. It will
not fail to keep up as a result of the transmission mechanism.
regards, tom lane
