Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

Date: 2010-05-12T11:26:31Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 07:10 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:

> I'm not sure what to make of this.  Sometimes not shutting down
> doesn't sound like a feature to me.

It acts exactly the same in recovery as in normal running. It is not a
special feature of recovery at all, bug or otherwise.

You may think its a strange feature generally and I would agree. I would
welcome you changing that in 9.1+, as long as your change works in both
recovery and normal running.

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 Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com