Re: Question on Hot Standby in PostgreSQL

From: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "'Williams, Alex *EXTERN*'" <awilliams(at)teamdrg(dot)com>, Yaser Raja <yrraja(at)gmail(dot)com>, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Question on Hot Standby in PostgreSQL
Date: 2015-11-25 08:43:10
Message-ID: A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B50FEA995@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at
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Alex Williams wrote:
> Concerning these two params below, when using hot_standby_feedback, what would you set them if you
> had the situation where you had queries constantly running on the standby, some quick and some long,
> practically all day/night, everyday?
>
> max_standby_archive_delay (integer)
> max_standby_streaming_delay (integer)

> Should I still keep them as -1 (infinite)?

I'd say set them both to 0.

If you have hot_standby_feedback=on, the primary will not remove any rows still
needed on the standby, so there should never be a need to delay WAL application.

The drawback is that you may get considerable bloat on the primary if many
DELETE/UPDATE operation are going on and queries on the standby take a long time.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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