Re: hot_standby = on

On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 17:24 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Well, yes. But then to stop that you could just lock users out using
> > pg_hba.conf, no? It just doesn't seem to be buying all that much to me.
>
> The main reason to turn it off is to disable a whole lot of very poorly
> tested code, and thereby improve the reliability of your warm standby
> server.

> There might be (almost certainly are) significant performance
> benefits as well.

I would be happy to look over any performance results you have that show
this to be true. I only know of one area I thought was a significant
loss in some cases, which you canned because we had no evidence it was a
problem...

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