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max_standby_streaming_delay
When hot standby is active, this parameter determines how long the standby server should wait before canceling standby queries that conflict with about-to-be-applied WAL entries, as described in Section 26.4.2. max_standby_streaming_delay applies when WAL data is being received via streaming replication. If this value is specified without units, it is taken as milliseconds. The default is 30 seconds. A value of -1 allows the standby to wait forever for conflicting queries to complete. This parameter can only be set in the postgresql.conf file or on the server command line. Note that max_standby_streaming_delay is not the same as the maximum length of time a query can run before cancellation; rather it is the maximum total time allowed to apply WAL data once it has been received from the primary server. Thus, if one query has resulted in significant delay, subsequent conflicting queries will have much less grace time until the standby server has caught up again.
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- Replication / Standby Servers
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- Unknown
- extra desc
- -1 means wait forever.
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- -1
- name
- max_standby_streaming_delay
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- Sets the maximum delay before canceling queries when a hot standby server is processing streamed WAL data.
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- pg-settings-source-snapshot
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- ms
- vartype
- integer
Definition PG 18
When hot standby is active, this parameter determines how long the
standby server should wait before canceling standby queries that
conflict with about-to-be-applied WAL entries, as described in
Section 26.4.2.
max_standby_streaming_delay applies when WAL data is
being received via streaming replication.
If this value is specified without units, it is taken as milliseconds.
The default is 30 seconds.
A value of -1 allows the standby to wait forever for conflicting
queries to complete.
This parameter can only be set in the postgresql.conf
file or on the server command line.
Note that max_standby_streaming_delay is not the same as
the maximum length of time a query can run before cancellation; rather
it is the maximum total time allowed to apply WAL data once it has
been received from the primary server. Thus, if one query has
resulted in significant delay, subsequent conflicting queries will
have much less grace time until the standby server has caught up
again.
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<p>
When hot standby is active, this parameter determines how long the
standby server should wait before canceling standby queries that
conflict with about-to-be-applied WAL entries, as described in
<a class="xref" href="/docs/18/hot-standby.html#HOT-STANDBY-CONFLICT" title="26.4.2. Handling Query Conflicts">Section 26.4.2</a>.
<code class="varname">max_standby_streaming_delay</code> applies when WAL data is
being received via streaming replication.
If this value is specified without units, it is taken as milliseconds.
The default is 30 seconds.
A value of -1 allows the standby to wait forever for conflicting
queries to complete.
This parameter can only be set in the <code class="filename">postgresql.conf</code>
file or on the server command line.
</p><p>
Note that <code class="varname">max_standby_streaming_delay</code> is not the same as
the maximum length of time a query can run before cancellation; rather
it is the maximum total time allowed to apply WAL data once it has
been received from the primary server. Thus, if one query has
resulted in significant delay, subsequent conflicting queries will
have much less grace time until the standby server has caught up
again.
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