Re: does wal archiving block the current client connection?

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 14:16 -0700, Jeff Frost wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2006, Simon Riggs wrote:
>
> >> Now I can run my same pg_bench, or do you guys
> >> have any other suggestions on attempting to reproduce the problem?
> >
> > No. We're back on track to try to reproduce the original error.
>
> I've been futzing with trying to reproduce the original problem for a few days
> and so far postgres seems to be just fine with a long delay on archiving, so
> now I'm rather at a loss.  In fact, I currently have 1,234 xlog files in
> pg_xlog, but the archiver is happily archiving one every 5 minutes.  Perhaps
> I'll try a long delay followed by a failure to see if that could be it.

So the chances of the original problem being archiver related are
receding...

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