Re: timestamp of the last replayed transaction - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: timestamp of the last replayed transaction
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Msg-id AANLkTin-Tp6hfhQyWuoUvVWfw1Pb-yOf6=KYz6Bhr4-s@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: timestamp of the last replayed transaction  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Dimitri Fontaine
>> <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
>>> Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> After 9.0 release, I've often heard that some people want to know
>>>> how far transactions have been replayed in the standby in timestamp
>>>> rather than LSN. So I'm thinking to include the function which returns
>>>> the timestamp of the last applied transaction (i.e., commit/abort WAL
>>>> record) in the core.
>>>>
>>>> Name: pg_last_replay_xact_timestamp (better name?)
>>>> Return Type: timestamp with time zone
>>>>
>>>> Thought?
>>>
>>> How do you want to implement the tracking?
>>
>> I'm thinking to just expose GetLatestXTime(), i.e., XLogCtl->recoveryLastXTime.
>
> I attached the patch.

This looks good, but how about adding:

if (!RecoveryInProgress())   PG_RETURN_NULL();

Otherwise, if we're in Hot Standby mode for a while and then enter
normal running, wouldn't this still return a (stale) value?

-- 
Robert Haas
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