> Now that I've realized what the real problem is with max_standby_delay
> (namely, that inactivity on the master can use up the delay), I think
> we should do what Tom originally suggested here.  It's not as good as
> a really working max_standby_delay, but we're not going to have that
> for 9.0, and it's clearly better than a boolean.

I guess I'm not clear on how what Tom proposed is fundamentally
different from max_standby_delay = -1.  If there's enough concurrent
queries, recovery would never catch up.

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