On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:58 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Let's have a setting similar to > statement_timeout, that specifies how long a statement is allowed to > run until it becomes subject to killing if it conflicts with recovery > (actually, it would have to be a per-transaction setting, at least in > serializable mode). This would be similar to Tom's proposal, and it > would have the same drawback that it would give no guarantee on how > much the standby can fall behind. However, it would be easier to > understand: > a query gets to run for X seconds, and after that it will be killed if > it gets in the way.
If you want this, I have no problem with you getting this (though new feature alert sirens going off, presumably). I only have a problem with the suggestion that this replaces the current max_standby_delay. There is no good case for only a single option. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers