Hi,
I'm thinking if there's a way in core postgres to achieve $subject. In
reality, the sync/async standbys can either be closer/farther (which
means sync/async standbys can receive WAL at different times) to
primary, especially in cloud HA environments with primary in one
Availability Zone(AZ)/Region and standbys in different AZs/Regions.
$subject may not be possible on dev systems (say, for testing some HA
features) unless we can inject a delay in WAL senders before sending
WAL.
How about having two developer-only GUCs {async,
sync}_wal_sender_delay? When set, the async and sync WAL senders will
delay sending WAL by {async, sync}_wal_sender_delay
milliseconds/seconds? Although, I can't think of any immediate use, it
will be useful someday IMO, say for features like [1], if it gets in.
With this set of GUCs, one can even add core regression tests for HA
features.
Thoughts?
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALj2ACWCj60g6TzYMbEO07ZhnBGbdCveCrD413udqbRM0O59RA%40mail.gmail.com
Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.
