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Re: Constant WAL replay


  • From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, eg(at)cybertec(dot)at
  • Subject: Re: Constant WAL replay
  • Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:18:13 -0400 (EDT)
  • Message-id: <200504250118(dot)j3P1IDq14997(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>
> >>Very close. We don't use the WAL (yet, slated for probably 8.1) but we
> >>do use a transaction log shipping method. So the implementation is 
> >>almost the same.
> > 
> > 
> > Can you run queries on the slave?  If so, how do you handle xid collisions?
> 
> You can run any query that does not modify data on a replicated table. 
> You can run any non data modifying query on any of the tables.

So, do you modify the slave to prevent it from grabbing an xid?

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