Re: max_worker_processes on the standby

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-08-04T00:56:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> One example which makes me a bit confusing is; both master and
> standby are running fine with track_commit_timestamp disabled,
> then I enable it only on the master. That is, the value of
> track_commit_timestamp is not the same between master and standby.
> No error happens in this case. According to the code of xlog_redo(),
> the commit timestamp tracking mechanism is activated in this case.
> However, after that, if standby is restarted, standby emits an error
> because the value of track_commit_timestamp is not the same between
> master and standby. Simple question is; why do we need to cause
> the standby fail in this case? Since I'm not familiar with the code of
> track_commit_timestamp yet, I'm not sure whether this behavior is
> valid or not.

Hmm, that seems like awfully weird behavior.

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Robert Haas
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Commits

  1. Cleanup commit timestamp module activaction, again

  2. Code review for transaction commit timestamps