Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, 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 <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Date: 2010-05-12T19:40:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 15:36 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I just noticed that we have some code assigning the return value of
> time() to a pg_time_t variable.  Is this supposed to work reliably?
> (xlog.c lines 9267ff)

Code's used that for a while now. Checkpoints and everywhere.

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