Re: Hot Standby Feedback should default to on in 9.3+ - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Hot Standby Feedback should default to on in 9.3+
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Msg-id 50B912A3.9050905@agliodbs.com
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In response to Hot Standby Feedback should default to on in 9.3+  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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> In the workloads where it might not be a good idea (very long queries on
> the standby, many dead tuples on the primary) you need to think very
> carefuly about the strategy of avoiding conflicts anyway, and explicit
> configuration is required as well.
> 
> Does anybody have an argument against changing the default value?

On balance, I think it's a good idea.  It's easier for new users,
conceptually, to deal with table bloat than query cancel.

Have we done testing on how much query cancel it actually eliminates?

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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