Re: some queries on standby preventing replication updates

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Emanuel Calvo <
emanuel(dot)calvo(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

>
> El 23/10/14 a las 17:40, Joe Van Dyk escibió:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a master and a slave database.
> >
> > I've got hot_standby_feedback turned on,
> > max_standby_streaming_delay=-1. I've configured the master and slave
> > to keep a few days of WALs around.
> >
> > I've noticed that when some large queries are run on the standby
> > machine (ones that take more than a minute or so), replication updates
> > are paused. Is there a way to fix this?
> >
> You may need to set a value on max_standby_streaming_delay, which
> controls the time
> before cancelling the standby queries when a conflict occurs on a
> wal-records-about-to-be-applied.
>
> Source:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/runtime-config-replication.html

I'm using -1 for that option, would using something different be better?