Re: Replication server timeout patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Replication server timeout patch
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Msg-id AANLkTi=iY8byjWjtSB-xCpo+Qtw35iCAtAHLwAgKyqVe@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Replication server timeout patch  (Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com>)
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> wrote:
>>> Context diff equivalent attached.
>>
>> Thanks for the patch!
>>
>> As I said before, the timeout which this patch provides doesn't work well
>> when the walsender gets blocked in sending WAL. At first, we would
>> need to implement a non-blocking write function as an infrastructure
>> of the replication timeout, I think.
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/AANLkTi%3DPu2ne%3DVO-%2BCLMXLQh9y85qumLCbBP15CjnyUS%40mail.gmail.com
>
> Interesting point...if that's accepted as required-for-commit, what
> are the perceptions of the odds that, presuming I can write the code
> quickly enough, that there's enough infrastructure/ports already in
> postgres to allow for a non-blocking write on all our supported
> platforms?

Are you working on this?

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Robert Haas
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