Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I fully accept that it may be the case that it doesn't make technical > sense to tackle them in any order besides sync->read-only slaves because > of dependencies in the implementation between the two.
Well, it's certainly not been my intention to suggest that no one should start work on read-only-slaves before we finish the other part. The point is that I expect the log shipping issues will be done first because they're easier, and it would be pointless to not release that feature if we had it. But since you mention it: one of the plausible answers for fixing the vacuum problem for read-only slaves is to have the slaves push an xmin back upstream to the master to prevent premature vacuuming. The current design of pg_standby is utterly incapable of handling that requirement. So there might be an implementation dependency there, depending on how we want to solve that problem. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers