On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> writes: >> One problem with the patch is that it takes longer (at most 10s) to >> detect the unexpected death of postmaster (by calling PostmasterIsAlive()). >> This is OK for me. But does anyone want to specify the delay to detect >> that within a short time? > > Oh. Hm. I'm hesitant to remove the setting if there's still some > behavior that it would control. Maybe we should just crank up the > default value instead.
Fair enough. How about increasing the default to 10 seconds? Since bgwriter has already using 10s as a nap time if there is no configured activity, I think that 10s is non-nonsense default value. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers