On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> wrote:
> See the nuggets hidden in section 25.2.5.2. "Monitoring" at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/warm-standby.html#STREAMING-REPLICATION
>
> After an UPDATE, your application can cache the info from
> 'pg_current_xlog_location()' result on the primary and then compare that
> with the result of 'pg_last_xlog_receive_location()' on the standby to see
> if it is seeing fresh enough data.
Yep, but since recovery might fall behind WAL receiving,
pg_last_xlog_replay_location should be called instead of
pg_last_xlog_receive_location.
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