Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 12:33 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> A related issue is that currently the recovery PANICs if it runs out of
>> recovery procs. I think that's not acceptable, regardless of whether we
>> use slotids or some other method to avoid it in normal operation,
>> because it means you can't recover at all if you set max_connections too
>> low in the standby (or in the primary, and you have to recover from
>> crash), or you run out of recovery procs because of an abort failed in
>> the primary like discussed on that thread.
>
>> The standby should just
>> fast-forward to the next running-xacts record in that case.
>
> What do you mean by "fast forward"?
I mean the standby should stop trying to track the in progress
transactions in recovery procs, and apply the WAL records like it does
before the consistent state is reached.
-- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
