Re: wal_sender_delay is still required?

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun dic 06 23:49:52 -0300 2010:
> Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
> > One problem with the patch is that it takes longer (at most 10s) to
> > detect the unexpected death of postmaster (by calling PostmasterIsAlive()).
> > This is OK for me. But does anyone want to specify the delay to detect
> > that within a short time?
> 
> Oh.  Hm.  I'm hesitant to remove the setting if there's still some
> behavior that it would control.  Maybe we should just crank up the
> default value instead.

Maybe we should have a single tunable for processes that just sleep
waiting for events or postmaster death.  For example pgstats has a
hardcoded 2 seconds, and the archiver process has a hardcoded value too
AFAICS.

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