Fujii Masao wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Craig Ringer
<cr...@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
Personally, I'd be uncomfortable enabling something like that without _both_
an admin alert _and_ the ability to refresh the slave's base backup without
admin intervention.

What feature do you specifically need as an alert? Just writing
the warning into the logfile is enough? Or need to notify by
using SNMP trap message? Though I'm not sure if this is a role
of Postgres.

It's impossible for the database to have any idea whatsoever how people are going to want to be alerted. Provide functions to monitor things like replication lag, like the number of segments queued up to feed to archive_command, and let people build their own alerting mechanism for now. They're going to do that anyway, so why waste precious time here building someone that's unlikely to fit any but a very narrow use case?

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