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Re: Re: Hot Standby query cancellation and Streaming Replication integration

Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>

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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-03-01T19:35:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Greg Stark wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> Completely aside from that, how many users are going to be happy with a
>> slave server which is constantly 5 minutes behind?
>>
> 
> Uhm, well all the ones who are happy with our current warm standby
> setup for one?
> 
> And all the ones who are looking for a standby reporting server rather
> than a high availability DR site.
> 
> For what it's worth Oracle has an option to have your standby
> intentionally hold back n minutes behind and I've seen that set to 5
> minutes.

yeah a lot of people are doing that intentionally...


Stefan