Re: Timeout and wait-forever in sync rep

On 06.12.2010 07:42, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Fujii Masao<masao.fujii@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The timeout doesn't oppose to 'wait-forever'. Even if you choose 'wait
>> -forever' (i.e., you set allow_standalone_master to false), the master
>> should detect the standby crash as soon as possible by using the
>> timeout. For example, imagine that max_wal_senders is set to one and
>> the master cannot detect the standby crash because of absence of the
>> timeout. In this case, even if you start new standby, it will not be
>> able to connect to the master since there is no free walsender slot.
>> As the result, the master actually waits forever.
>
> This occurred to me that the timeout would be required even for
> asynchronous streaming replication. So, how about implementing the
> replication timeout feature before synchronous replication itself?

Sounds good to me. The more pieces we can nibble off the main patch the 
better.

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