On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:56 AM, Elvis Pranskevichus <elpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently, clients wishing to know when the server exits hot standby > have to resort to polling, which is often suboptimal. > > This adds the new "in_hot_standby" GUC variable that is reported via a > ParameterStatus message. This allows the clients to: > > (a) know right away that they are connected to a server in hot > standby; and > > (b) know immediately when a server exits hot standby. > > This change will be most beneficial to various connection pooling > systems (pgpool etc.)
Why adding a good chunk of code instead of using pg_is_in_recovery(), which switches to false once a server exits recovery? -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
