Re: pg_basebackup blocking all queries with horrible performance

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

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

To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

Cc: Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com>, Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au>, Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@comcast.net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org

Date: 2012-06-09T12:51:10Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
> This seems a bug. I think we should prevent pg_basebackup from
> becoming synchronous standby. Thought?

Absolutely.  If we have replication clients that are not actually
capable of being standbys, there *must* be a way for the master
to know that.

			regards, tom lane