On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Granthana Biswas <granth...@zedo.com>wrote:

> Can anyone please tell me which of the following is the correct
> replication lag query to find streaming replication lag in seconds?
>
> IMHO none is 'correct'. :-)

1. SELECT extract(seconds from (now() - pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp()))
> AS time_lag;
>
> This is the difference between now and last replayed log. What if the last
transaction on master has happened a few minutes ago?


> 2. SELECT CASE WHEN pg_last_xlog_receive_location() =
> pg_last_xlog_replay_location() THEN 0 ELSE EXTRACT (EPOCH FROM now() -
> pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp()) END AS log_delay;
>

For reason same as above, this won't be exact but the most accurate you can
get.

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