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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml | 2 |
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml index e1073ac6d32..f11b8f724cd 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml @@ -3127,10 +3127,14 @@ include_dir 'conf.d' Terminate replication connections that are inactive longer than the specified number of milliseconds. This is useful for the sending server to detect a standby crash or network outage. - A value of zero disables the timeout mechanism. This parameter - can only be set in - the <filename>postgresql.conf</filename> file or on the server command line. - The default value is 60 seconds. + A value of zero disables the timeout mechanism. The default value + is 60 seconds. With a cluster distributed across multiple geographic + locations, using different values per location brings more flexibility + in the cluster management. A smaller value is useful for faster + failure detection with a standby having a low-latency network + connection, and a larger value helps in judging better the health + of a standby if located on a remote location, with a high-latency + network connection. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml index 8cb77f85ec0..6f57362df7f 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ protocol to make nodes agree on a serializable transactional order. A simple example of a <filename>recovery.conf</filename> is: <programlisting> standby_mode = 'on' -primary_conninfo = 'host=192.168.1.50 port=5432 user=foo password=foopass' +primary_conninfo = 'host=192.168.1.50 port=5432 user=foo password=foopass options=''-c wal_sender_timeout=5000''' restore_command = 'cp /path/to/archive/%f %p' archive_cleanup_command = 'pg_archivecleanup /path/to/archive %r' </programlisting> |