On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 13:53 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > That having been said, there is at least one part of this patch which > looks to be in pretty good shape and seems independently useful > regardless of what happens to the rest of it, and that is the code > that sends replies from the standby back to the primary. This allows > pg_stat_replication to display the write/flush/apply log positions on > the standby next to the sent position on the primary, which as far as > I am concerned is pure gold. Simon had this set up to happen only > when synchronous replication or XID feedback in use, but I think > people are going to want it even with plain old asynchronous > replication, because it provides a FAR easier way to monitor standby > lag than anything we have today. I've extracted this portion of the > patch, cleaned it up a bit, written docs, and attached it here.
Score! +1 JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
