On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 22:47 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > It's not quite that simple. Setting max_standby_delay=5mins means that > you're willing to wait 5 minutes for each query to die. Which means that > in worst case you have to stop for 5 minutes at every single vacuum > record, and fall behind much more than 5 minutes.
Just trying to follow along: are you talking about the situation where there are (for example) a continuous stream of "select pg_sleep(600)" on the standby, and a series of rapid VACUUMs on the primary? This situation might be more likely now that we have partial VACUUMs. > It should also be noted that the control functions allow you to connect > to the database and manually pause/resume the replay. So you can for > example set max_standby_delay=0 during the day, but pause the replay > manually before starting a nightly report. > That's a very cool feature. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers