Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > Increasing the waiting time increases the failover time and thus > decreases the value of the standby as an HA system. Others value high > availability higher than you and so we had agreed to provide an option > to allow the max waiting time to be set.
Sure, it's a nice option to have. But I think the default should be to pause WAL replay. The question I had was whether your solution for btree pointers marked dead and later dropped from the index works when the user hasn't configured a timeout and doesn't want standby queries killed. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostGIS support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
