Re: Hot Standby query cancellation and Streaming Replication integration

Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>

From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-26T14:24:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 26/02/10 14:10, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
> Ideally the standby would stash away the old pages or tuples somewhere
> so that it can still access them even after replaying the WAL records
> that remove them from the main storage. I realize that's not going to
> happen any time soon because it's hard to do, but that would really be
> the most robust fix possible.

Something like snapshotting a filesystem, so updates continue while 
you're still looking at a static version.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd