Re: max_standby_delay considered harmful

Robert Haas wrote:
> Does my proposal (upthread) to limit this by quantity of WAL rather
> than time have any legs, or is that impractical and/or otherwise poor?

That would certainly be easier to implement sanely than a time-based
quantity. One problem is that we don't know how much unapplied WAL there
is, when you're not using streaming replication. And I'm not sure how
useful that is to users - it's very hard to estimate what to set it to.

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