On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 10:37 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Regarding this item from the wiki page: > > The "standby delay" is measured as current timestamp - timestamp of last > > replayed commit record. If there's little activity in the master, that can > > lead to surprising results. For example, imagine that max_standby_delay is > > set to 8 hours. The standby is fully up-to-date with the master, and > > there's no write activity in master. After 10 hours, a long reporting query > > is started in the standby. Ten minutes later, a small transaction is > > executed in the master that conflicts with the reporting query. I would > > expect the reporting query to be canceled 8 hours after the conflicting > > transaction began, but it is in fact canceled immediately, because it's > > over 8 hours since the last commit record was replayed. > > > > * Simon says... changed to allow checkpoints to update > > recoveryLastXTime (Simon DONE) > > Update recoveryLastXTime at checkpoints doesn't help when the master is > completely idle, because we skip checkpoints in that case. It's better > than nothing, of course.
Not if archive_timeout is set, which it would be in warm standby case. We can do even better than this with SR. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers