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Re: Streaming replication status

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

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From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
To: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-12T05:16:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> 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?

Agreed.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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