Tue, 4 Nov 2014 14:41:56 +0100 от Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com>:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2014-11-03 14:04:00 +0300, Alexey Vasiliev wrote:
> > *  What the patch does in a short paragraph: This patch should add option 
> > recovery_timeout, which help to control timeout of restore_command nonzero 
> > status code. Right now default value is 5 seconds. This is useful, if I 
> > using for restore of wal logs some external storage (like AWS S3) and no 
> > matter what the slave database will lag behind the master. The problem, 
> > what for each request to AWS S3 need to pay, what is why for N nodes, which 
> > try to get next wal log each 5 seconds will be bigger price, than for 
> > example each 30 seconds. Before I do this in this way: " if ! 
> > (/usr/local/bin/envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env /usr/local/bin/wal-e wal-fetch "%f" 
> > "%p"); then sleep 60; fi ". But in this case restart/stop database slower.
> 
> Without saying that the feature is unneccessary, wouldn't this better be
> solved by using streaming rep most of the time?

But we don't need streaming rep. Master database no need to know about slaves 
(and no need to add this little overhead to master). Slaves read wal logs from 
S3 and the same S3 wal logs used as backups. 

-- 
Alexey Vasiliev
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