On 2014-01-11 18:28:31 +0100, Florian Pflug wrote: > Hm, I was about to suggest that you can set statement_timeout before > doing COMMIT to limit the amount of time you want to wait for the > standby to respond. Interestingly, however, that doesn't seem to work, > which is weird, since AFAICS statement_timeout simply generates a > query cancel requester after the timeout has elapsed, and cancelling > the COMMIT with Ctrl-C in psql *does* work.
I think that'd be a pretty bad API since you won't know whether the commit failed or succeeded but replication timed out. There very well might have been longrunning constraint triggers or such taking a long time. So it really would need a separate GUC. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers