Re: Summary and Plan for Hot Standby

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:14 +0900, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> On 11/15/09 11:07 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>> - When replaying b-tree deletions, we currently wait out/cancel all
>>> running (read-only) transactions. We take the ultra-conservative stance
>>> because we don't know how recent the tuples being deleted are. If we
>>> could store a better estimate for latestRemovedXid in the WAL record, we
>>> could make that less conservative.
>> Simon was explaining this issue here at JPUGCon; now that I understand
>> it, this specific issue seems like the worst usability issue in HS now.
>>  Bad enough to kill its usefulness for users, or even our ability to get
>> useful testing data; in an OLTP production database with several hundred
>> inserts per second it would result in pretty much never being able to
>> get any query which takes longer than a few seconds to complete on the
>> slave.
> 
> I am pretty sure that OmniTI, PgExperts, EDB and CMD all have customers
> that are doing more than that... This sounds pretty significant.

Agreed, it's the biggest usability issue at the moment. The
max_standby_delay option makes it less annoying, but it's still there.
I'm fine with it from a code point of view, so I'm not going to hold off
committing because of it, but it sure would be nice to address it.

--  Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com