Re: viewing connectioninfo used by subscriber on the publication server when inactive

Keith Fiske schreef op do 14-05-2020 om 10:34 [-0400]:
> WAL is always cluster/instance-wide. Locally generated WAL files are,
> by default, always 16MB in size no matter how little has changed. So
> if you have archive_timeout set and only a single row has changed,
> that WAL file will still be 16MB (although it will compress down very
> small if you're archiving elsewhere).
>
> How much of an impact this will be is entirely dependent on the write
> rate of your cluster. If you have very few writes you may be fine.
> But I would definitely suggest getting some monitoring in place if
> you expect to have offline subscribers for any long period of time.

this is not a typical use case,
and this server is just setup for only this purpose, there are very
little writes, but i understand your concern for other people reading
this without the proper context of this thread.

monitoring: as this was part of my original question, do you have a
suggestion for this setup?, preferably using a solution that is
available in the debian repo (apt.postgresql or debian)

>
> But, again, I would still try and rethink this strategy. Offline
> subscribers can be a very big problem if they never come back. Not
> only because you'd eventually fill up your disk, but also because
> that no longer allows PG to recycle its WAL files, or can cause
> excessive cleanup operations when that subscriber finally comes back,
> which can have big IO impacts.

as it is a demo/exercise setup with very little writes,
and was planning on using pg_cron weekly to cleanup inactive slots.

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