Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful
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Msg-id AANLkTikfkVgcEZb4vt77gG78fL0AoU3_Y8O99FV391ef@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
Responses Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Stefan Kaltenbrunner's message of mié may 12 15:10:28 -0400 2010:
>
>> the startup process has the following backtrace:
>>
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x00007fbe24cb2c83 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
>> #1  0x00000000006e811a in pg_usleep ()
>> #2  0x000000000048c333 in XLogPageRead ()
>> #3  0x000000000048c967 in ReadRecord ()
>> #4  0x0000000000493ab6 in StartupXLOG ()
>> #5  0x0000000000495a88 in StartupProcessMain ()
>> #6  0x00000000004ab25e in AuxiliaryProcessMain ()
>> #7  0x00000000005d4a7d in StartChildProcess ()
>> #8  0x00000000005d70c2 in PostmasterMain ()
>> #9  0x000000000057d898 in main ()
>
> I just noticed that we have some code assigning the return value of
> time() to a pg_time_t variable.  Is this supposed to work reliably?
> (xlog.c lines 9267ff)

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