Re: Standalone synchronous master

On 2014-01-11 18:28:31 +0100, Florian Pflug wrote:
> Hm, I was about to suggest that you can set statement_timeout before
> doing COMMIT to limit the amount of time you want to wait for the
> standby to respond. Interestingly, however, that doesn't seem to work,
> which is weird, since AFAICS statement_timeout simply generates a
> query cancel requester after the timeout has elapsed, and cancelling
> the COMMIT with Ctrl-C in psql *does* work.

I think that'd be a pretty bad API since you won't know whether the
commit failed or succeeded but replication timed out. There very well
might have been longrunning constraint triggers or such taking a long
time.
So it really would need a separate GUC.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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