Hi folks,

We've got to monitor replication status (and lag) of a few 9.1.2 replicas and I'm trying to use values in master's pg_stat_replication to do so.

The documentation [1] on postgresql.org doesn't explains exactly the internals, especially what the *_location values means. What I'm doing right now is to convert replay_location from 64 bit hex to integer and trace the growing trend, and looking at that I think it's quite impossible to be a WAL filename because the growing rate is way too fast (average 100k per second, with spikes of 8G per second).

Anyway, the whole idea is to check "distance" between the actual value for the master (still have to figure out where is that) and the replicas replay_location, and alert if that value is too high compared to our average trends. If you've got better ideas to spare, don't hesitate ;)

Thanks for your time


[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-STATS-VIEWS

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