Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful
Date: 2010-05-06 14:56:13
Message-ID: 1273157773.12659.497.camel@ebony
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On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 17:39 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> Not the same plugin. A hook for stop/resume would need to be called
> before and/or after each record, the one for conflict resolution would
> need to be called at each conflict. Designing a good interface for a
> plugin is hard, you need at least a couple of samples ideas for plugins
> that would use the hook, before you know the interface is flexible enough.

* current behaviour of max_standby_delay
* pause for X time if conflict, then cancel - which is the suggested
behaviour upthread
* pause-if-conflict, explicit resume needed

Info passed to plugin
* conflict type
* relfilenode
* latestRemovedXid

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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