Re: How to prioritise walsender reading from pg_wal over WAL writes?

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Alexey Bashtanov <bashtanov(at)imap(dot)cc>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to prioritise walsender reading from pg_wal over WAL writes?
Date: 2020-11-18 16:20:58
Message-ID: 6a3a9ef99167a7baeaeee3d3df4af59694277e36.camel@cybertec.at
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On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 12:15 +0000, Alexey Bashtanov wrote:
> My reply did not get threaded appropriately.
> My original question was here:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a74d5732-60fd-d18b-05fd-7b2b97099f19%40imap.cc
> I'd like to prioritize walsender for replication not to lag too much.
> Otherwise, when I have load spikes on master, standby lags, sometimes by
> hundreds of gigabytes.

I would first determine where the bottleneck is.

Is it really the walsender, or is it on the network or in the standby server's replay?

Check the difference between "sent_lsn", "replay_lsn" from "pg_stat_replication" and
pg_current_wal_lsn() on the primary.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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