Re: Hot standby, slot ids and stuff

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 12:33 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> A related issue is that currently the recovery PANICs if it runs out of 
>> recovery procs. I think that's not acceptable, regardless of whether we 
>> use slotids or some other method to avoid it in normal operation, 
>> because it means you can't recover at all if you set max_connections too 
>> low in the standby (or in the primary, and you have to recover from 
>> crash), or you run out of recovery procs because of an abort failed in 
>> the primary like discussed on that thread. 
> 
>> The standby should just 
>> fast-forward to the next running-xacts record in that case.
> 
> What do you mean by "fast forward"?

I mean the standby should stop trying to track the in progress 
transactions in recovery procs, and apply the WAL records like it does 
before the consistent state is reached.

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