Re: Keepalive for max_standby_delay

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Keepalive for max_standby_delay
Date: 2010-07-03 19:17:48
Message-ID: 4C2F8CDC.5040702@enterprisedb.com
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On 03/07/10 18:32, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> It would seem logical to use the same logic for archive recovery as we
>> do for streaming replication, and only set XLogReceiptTime when you have
>> to wait for a WAL segment to arrive into the archive, ie. when
>> restore_command fails.
>
> That would not do what you want at all in the case where you're
> recovering from archive --- XLogReceiptTime would never advance
> at all for the duration of the recovery.

Do you mean when using something like pg_standby, which does the waiting
itself?

> It might be useful if you knew that it was a standby-with-log-shipping
> situation, but we have no way to tell the difference.

With pg_standby etc. you use standby_mode=off. Same with traditional
archive recovery. In standby mode, it's on.

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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