Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful
Date: 2010-05-12 11:26:31
Message-ID: 1273663591.308.441.camel@ebony
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On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 07:10 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:

> I'm not sure what to make of this. Sometimes not shutting down
> doesn't sound like a feature to me.

It acts exactly the same in recovery as in normal running. It is not a
special feature of recovery at all, bug or otherwise.

You may think its a strange feature generally and I would agree. I would
welcome you changing that in 9.1+, as long as your change works in both
recovery and normal running.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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