Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> It is off-base. The receiver does not "request" data, the sender is
>> what determines how much WAL is sent when.
> Hm, so what happens if the slave blocks, doesn't the sender block when
> the kernel buffers fill up?
Well, if the slave can't keep up, that's a separate problem. It will
not fail to keep up as a result of the transmission mechanism.
regards, tom lane