From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: checkpoints are duplicated even while the system is idle |
Date: | 2011-10-06 18:18:29 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZTnqk8vpODJJqW_Q3R0y1eSnoN3Y+LH6J=cyqq_cch4Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Do we want this backpatched? If so, suggest just 9.1 and 9.0?
>
> -1 for backpatching; it's more an improvement than a bug fix.
>
> In any case, I think we still need to respond to the point Kevin made
> about how to tell an idle master from broken replication. Right now,
> you will get at least a few bytes of data every checkpoint_timeout
> seconds. If we change this, you won't.
>
> I'm inclined to think that the way to deal with that is not to force out
> useless WAL data, but to add some sort of explicit "I'm alive" heartbeat
> signal to the walsender/walreceiver protocol. The hard part of that is
> to figure out how to expose it where you can see it on the slave side
> --- or do we have a status view that could handle that?
As of 9.1, we already have something very much like this, in the
opposite direction. See wal_receiver_status_interval and
replication_timeout. I bet we could adapt that slightly to work in
the other direction, too. But that'll only work with streaming
replication - do we care about the WAL shipping case?
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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