Re: warning message in standby

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-06-14T14:43:38Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm willing to buy the above, but nobody has explained to my
>> satisfaction why it's remotely sane to go into an infinite retry loop
>> on an unrecoverable error.
>
> That's a different question altogether ;-).  I assume you're not
> satisfied by the change Heikki committed a couple hours ago?
> It will at least try to do something to recover.

Yeah, I'm not satisfied by that.  It's an improvement in the technical
sense - it replaces an infinite retry that spins at top speed with a
slower retry that won't flog your CPU quite so badly, but the chances
that it will actually succeed in correcting the underlying problem
seem infinitesimal.

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Robert Haas
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