Re: Hot Standby and handling max_standby_delay

On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 11:37 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > I'm wondering if it wouldn't just be easier to put in a plugin for
> > recovery conflict handling, so the user can decide what to do
> > themselves. That seems like a better plan than chewing through these
> > issues now. 
> 
> Making it a plugin doesn't solve anything.  This is not the kind of
> thing where people can come up with some random policy and it will
> work well.  Anyone competent to invent a better policy would be quite
> capable of modifying the source to suit themselves.

Agreed, with some regrets.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com