Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 11:36 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote:

> If there was an additional SQL-callable function that returned the backends the recovery process is currently waiting
for,plus one that reported that last timestamp seen in the WAL, than all those different cancellation policies could be
implementedas daemons that monitor recovery and kill backends as needed, no?
 
> 
> That would allow people to experiment with different cancellation policies, and maybe shed some light on what the
usefulpolicies are in practice.
 

It would be easier to implement a conflict resolution plugin that is
called when a conflict occurs, allowing users to have a customisable
mechanism. Again, I have no objection to that proposal.

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