Re: pg_receivexlog --status-interval add fsync feedback

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: <furuyao(at)pm(dot)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp>, Sawada Masahiko <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <teranishih(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: pg_receivexlog --status-interval add fsync feedback
Date: 2014-10-23 15:11:58
Message-ID: 54491ABE.8000707@vmware.com
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On 10/23/2014 06:01 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 23 October 2014 15:39, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I'm going around in the circle. But I'd like to say again, I don't think
>> this is good idea. It prevents asynchronous pg_receivexlog from fsyncing
>> WAL data and sending feedbacks more frequently at all. They are useful,
>> for example, when we want to monitor the write location of asynchronous
>> pg_receivexlog in almost realtime. But if we adopt the idea, since feedback
>> cannot be sent soon in async mode, pg_stat_replication always returns
>> the not-up-to-date location.
>
> Why not send a message every 10 seconds when its not sync rep?

Or even after every write(). It's a tiny amount of network traffic anyway.

- Heikki

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