On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:53 -0500, Gabi Julien wrote: > I have merged the last hot standby patch (v9g) to 8.4 devel and I am pleased > with the experience. This is promising stuff. Perhaps it is a bit too soon to > ask questions here but here it is: > > 1. Speed of recovery > > With a archive_timeout of 60 seconds, it can take about 4 minutes before I see > the reflected changes in the replica. This is normal since, in addition to > the WAL log shipping, it takes more time to do the recovery itself. Still, is > there any way besides the archive_timeout config option to speed up the > recovery of WAL logs on the hot standby? > Is the recovery itself the bottleneck? There's a performance improvement submitted here: http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/a778a7260810280033n43f70d36x8c437eacf9a5461e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx But I haven't been following the development of it closely, so you'll have to read the thread to see whether it will meet your needs or not. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general