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Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Date: 2010-05-08T23:42:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sunday 09 May 2010 01:34:18 Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I think everyone agrees the current code is unusable, per Heikki's
> comment about a WAL file arriving after a period of no WAL activity, and
> look how long it took our group to even understand why that fails so
> badly.
To be honest its not *that* hard to simply make sure generating wal regularly 
to combat that. While it surely aint a nice workaround its not much of a 
problem either.

Andres