Re: Hot Standby on git

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hot Standby on git
Date: 2009-10-07 13:05:37
Message-ID: 1254920737.26302.227.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 10:32 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > I will docuemnt the recommendation to set max_standby_delay = 0 if
> > performing an archive recovery (and explain why).
>
> Hmm, not sure if that's such a good piece of advice either. It will mean
> waiting for queries forever, which probably isn't what you want if
> you're performing archive recovery. Or maybe it is? Maybe -1? I guess it
> depends on the situation...

I've changed that to -1 now, which was what I meant. 0 is likely to be a
very wrong setting during archive recovery.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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