Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 14:01 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > I already explained that killing the startup process first is a bad idea
> > for many reasons when shutdown was discussed. Can't remember who added
> > the new standby shutdown code recently, but it sounds like their design
> > was pretty poor if it didn't include shutting down properly with HS. I
> > hope they fix the bug they have introduced. HS was never designed to
> > work that way, so there is no flaw there; it certainly worked when
> > committed.
> 
> New smart shutdown during recovery doesn't kill the startup process until
> all of the read only backends have gone away. So it works fine with HS.

Yes, I thought some more about what Robert said. HS works identically to
normal running in this regard, so there's no hint of a bug or design
flaw on that for either of us to worry about.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com