Re: Hot Standby query cancellation and Streaming Replication integration

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-02-26T21:06:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Well, as Heikki said, a stop-and-go WAL management approach could deal
> with that use-case.  What I'm concerned about here is the complexity,
> reliability, maintainability of trying to interlock WAL application with
> slave queries in any sort of fine-grained fashion.

This sounds a bit brute-force, but what about simply having some form of
automatic query retry on the slave?

--Josh Berkus