Re: Problem with reading data from standby server ?

Condor <condor@stz-bg.com>

From: Condor <condor@stz-bg.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-04-21T15:38:57Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 21.04.2012 12:59, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Friday, April 20, 2012 10:39:25 AM Condor wrote:
>> array_accumulate aggregate is:
>>
>>
>> CREATE AGGREGATE array_accumulate (
>>      sfunc = array_append,
>>      basetype = anyelement,
>>      stype = anyarray,
>>      initcond = '{}'
>> );
> Btw, if you replace that by array_agg which is builtin in any version
> support
> HS/SR the whole query might finish faster and thus is less likely to 
> cause
> conflicts.

No, the speed is the same, I just check with explain but yes, I will 
switch to use array_agg

>
> If youre already on 9.1 you might also want to look into
> hot_standby_feedback
> that can also reduce the likelihood of conflicts by informing the
> master what
> is going on on the standby.
>

This option hot_standby_feedback look interesting, but when I read what 
do more questions coming like:

This can cause database bloat on the primary for some workloads. Well 
if I run one query every hour and take
30 min to finish the job, with how much my database on primary will be 
increase and when I run vaccumdb on master do this
blob will gone. Well I watch one treat here, one guy with 540 gb 
database with huge blob and Im little scared do I
will have the same result. Also if something happened on the master 
server and it's going down do I will have all
wal files in archive directory on standby server and did postgres will 
apply them auto after finish the query or
I need to do this manually.


> Greetings,
>
> Andres

Greetings,
Condor