From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: remove pg_standby?
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:00:35 -0800
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On 11/10/2014 10:54 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
>> pg_standby is more configurable than the built-in standby_mode=on. You can
>> set the sleep time, for example, while standby_mode=on uses a hard-coded
>> delay of 5 s. And pg_standby has a configurable maximum wait time. And as
>> Fujii pointed out, the built-in system will print an annoying message to the
>> log every time it attempts to restore a file. Nevertheless, 99% of users
>> would probably be happy with the built-in thing.
>
> As long as pg_standby has features that are actually useful and that
> are not in the built-in system, we shouldn't remove it. We should,
> however, try to fix those in the main system so we can get rid of it
> after that :)
As of current 9.5, we have configurable retries and standby delay in
mainstream. Is there some reason we still need pg_standby?
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Josh Berkus
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