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Re: Hot Standby (v9d)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: jd@commandprompt.com, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-01-28T21:12:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I vote with Simon.  The thing is that if you get some queries
> cancelled, you'll realize you have a problem.

... or if you don't, they couldn't have been all that critical.

> Having your failover be 12 hours
> behind (or 12 months behind) is something that it would be much easier
> to not realize.

Okay, I'm sold, positive max_standby_delay should be the default.

			regards, tom lane