Re: Measurin the lag between a master and a replica

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:02 AM, David Kerr <dmk@mr-paradox.net> wrote:
> I was looking into this last month and some nice folks on the list pointed me to this formula
> for calculating lag. (to be run on the slave) similar to what Sergey said.
>
>         when pg_last_xlog_receive_location() = pg_last_xlog_replay_location()
>         then 0
>         else extract ('epoch' from now()-pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp()) end as log_delay;

If you have a connection problem this will not reflect the situation.

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