"Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> writes: >>>> Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > >> max_standby_delay is set in recovery.conf, value 0 (forever) - > 2,000,000 >> secs, settable in milliseconds. So think of it like a deadlock > detector >> for recovery apply. > > Aha! A deadlock is a type of serialization failure. (In fact, on > databases with lock-based concurrency control rather than MVCC, it can > be the ONLY type of serialization failure.)
I think the fundamental difference is that a deadlock or serialization failure can be predicted as a potential problem when writing the code. This is something that can happen for any query any time, even plain old read-only select queries. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's 24x7 Postgres support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
