Re: New 8.4 hot standby feature

On Thursday 29 January 2009 02:43:18 you wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:53 -0500, Gabi Julien wrote:
> > I have merged the last hot standby patch (v9g) to 8.4 devel and I am
> > pleased with the experience. This is promising stuff.
>
> Thanks,
>
> > Perhaps it is a bit too soon to
> > ask questions here but here it is:
>
> Thanks very much for the bug report.
>
> > 1. Speed of recovery
> >
> > With a archive_timeout of 60 seconds, it can take about 4 minutes before
> > I see the reflected changes in the replica. This is normal since, in
> > addition to the WAL log shipping, it takes more time to do the recovery
> > itself. Still, is there any way besides the archive_timeout config option
> > to speed up the recovery of WAL logs on the hot standby?
>
> There was a reported bug whose apparent symptoms were delay of WAL
> files. The bug was not in fact anything to do with that at all, it was
> just delayed *visibility*. So I doubt very much that you have a
> performance problem.
>
> The bug fix patch is attached, verified to solve the problem.

Thanks. Please discard all my previous comments. This was the true source of
the issue that I was experiencing.