Re: Streaming replication status

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> >> Let's get a reasonable feature set implemented and then come back in 8.6
> >> to improve it.  For example, there is no need for a special
> >> 'replication' user (just use super-user), and monitoring should be
> >> minimal until we have field experience of exactly what monitoring we
> >> need.  
> >>
> >> The final commit-fest is in 5 days --- this is not the time for design
> >> discussion and feature additions.  If we wait for SR to be feature
> >> complete, with design discussions, etc, we will hopelessly delay 8.5 and
> >> people will get frustrated.  I am not saying we can't talk about design,
> >> but none of this should be a requirement for 8.5.
> > 
> > We can't add monitoring until we know what the performance
> > characteristics are. Hmmm. And how will we know what the performance
> > characteristics are, I wonder?
> 
> well I would say we do exactly how we have done in the past with other 
> features - by debugging the stuff with low level tools until we fully 
> understand what it really is and then we can always add more 
> "accessible" stats.

Right, so what is the risk of shipping without any fancy monitoring?

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