Hello Everyone!

Sorry for being persistent.

> I do not think anybody thinks this is a bug.  Setting wal_sender_timeout
> too small is a configuration mistake.

Why is it a configuration mistake? This value is allowed  to be set. There 
is no any restriction about it.
I would like to ask a question regarding wal_sender_timeout description 
and its real behaviour.
Description:
Terminate replication connections that are inactive longer than the 
specified number of milliseconds.
Real behaviour:
A standby server can be busy and does not send "keepalive" packets to the 
master.
(By the way wal_sender_timeot cannot be not so small as in my tests. This 
situation can happen when wal_sender_timeout=10seconds and so on and and 
so forth).

Does it work properly according to the description?  Don't you see the 
contradiction between the description and real behaviour?  As I mentioned 
before the connection between master and standby is good. There is no any 
problem.
So where is a bug: in the description or in the implementation?

> Yeah.  I don't see any bug here.  Please note that it can be also a
> problem to set up a too high value in some configuration setups.  The
> lack of flexibility in this area is why wal_sender_timeout has been
> switch to be user-settable in v12.  In short you can configure it in
> the connection string to enforce a custom value per standby.

Will a small value of  wal_sender_timeout in PostgreSQL v12  lead to the 
same failure "terminating walsender process due to replication timeout" as 
we observe in v11 ?

Best regards, 
Andrei Yahorau

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