Re: [HACKERS] Re: pgsql: Use a latch to make startup process wake up and replay

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 20:14 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> > <heikki@postgresql.org> wrote:
> > > Log Message:
> > > -----------
> > > Use a latch to make startup process wake up and replay immediately when
> > > new WAL arrives via streaming replication. This reduces the latency, and
> > > also allows us to use a longer polling interval, which is good for energy
> > > efficiency.
> > >
> > > We still need to poll to check for the appearance of a trigger file, but
> > > the interval is now 5 seconds (instead of 100ms), like when waiting for
> > > a new WAL segment to appear in WAL archive.
> >
> > Good work!
>
> No, not good work.
>
> You both know very well that I'm working on this area also and these
> commits are not agreed... yet. They might not be contended but they are
> very likely to break my patch, again.
>
> Please desist while we resolve which are the good ideas and which are
> not. We won't know that if you keep breaking other people's patches in a
> stream of commits that prevent anybody completing other options.

Simon,

No matter how many times you try, you are not going to get a license
to stop all work on anything you might chance to think about.  It is
quite simply never going to happen, so you need to back off.

Cheers,
David.
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