On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote: > > Think of someone setting up a test server, by setting it up as a standby > from the master. Now, when someone holds a transaction open in the test > server, you get bloat in the master. Or if you set up a standby for > reporting purposes - a very common use case - you would not expect a long > running ad-hoc query in the standby to bloat the master. That's precisely > why you set up such a standby in the first place.
Without hot standby feedback, reporting queries are impossible. I've experienced it. Cancellations make it impossible to finish any decently complex reporting query. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
