On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This looks good, but how about adding:
>>
>> if (!RecoveryInProgress())
>>    PG_RETURN_NULL();
>>
>> Otherwise, if we're in Hot Standby mode for a while and then enter
>> normal running, wouldn't this still return a (stale) value?
>
> Yes, but isn't that (stale) value useful to check how far WAL records
> have been replayed, *after failover*?

Oh, OK.  I guess that makes sense.  One other question - should we say
pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp() rather than
pg_xact_last_replay_timestamp(), for consistency with
pg_last_xlog_replay_location()?

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