Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>

From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>

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

Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2010-05-06T01:47:42Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> One reason I believe this isn't so critical as all that is that it only
> matters for cases where the operation on the master took an exclusive
> lock.

Uhm, or a vacuum ran. Or a HOT page cleanup occurred, or a btree page
split deleted old tuples.

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greg