Re: Replication failure, slave requesting old segments

On 08/12/2018 03:54 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Phil Endecott (spam_from_pgsql_lists(at)chezphil(dot)org) wrote:
>> OK. I think this is perhaps a documentation bug, maybe a missing
>> warning when the master reads its configuration, and maybe (as you say)
>> a bad default value.
>
> If we consider it to be an issue worthy of a change then we should
> probably just change the default value, and maybe not even allow it to
> be set lower than '1'.
>

I would say leave the default at 0 as it leaves no doubt that you are
performing without a net. A setting of '1' implies you are covered and
for a fast moving cluster or slow moving one with sufficient downtime
that would not be the case. Better to let the end user know this is not
a simple problem and some thought needs to go into configuration.

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Adrian Klaver
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