Re: replication_timeout not effective

On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 9:35 AM Dang Minh Huong wrote:
> Hi,

> I'm wondering if this is a bug of PostgreSQL.

> PostgreSQL's show that replication_timeout parameter can "Terminate replication connections that are inactive longer than the specified number of milliseconds". But in my environment the sender process > is hang up (in several tens of minunites) if i turn off (by power off) Standby PC while pg_basebackup is excuting.

> Is this correct?

> As my debug, sender process is terminated when recieve SIGPIPE process but it come too slow (about 30minutes after standby PC was down).

For such scenario's, new parameter wal_sender_timeout has been introduced in 9.3. Refer below:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/runtime-config-replication.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-REPLICATION-SENDER

I am not sure how to get rid of this problem in 9.1.9

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.