wal_receiver_timeout

Terminate replication connections that are inactive for longer than this amount of time. This is useful for the receiving standby server to detect a primary node crash or network outage. If this value is specified without units, it is taken as milliseconds. The default value is 60 seconds. A value of zero disables the timeout mechanism. This parameter can only be set in the postgresql.conf file or on the server command line.

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boot val: 60000
category: Replication / Standby Servers
context: sighup
doc same as: Unknown
documented: true
enumvals: Unknown
extra desc: 0 disables the timeout.
lang: en
max val: 2147483647
metadata version: 18
min val: 0
name: wal_receiver_timeout
short desc: Sets the maximum wait time to receive data from the sending server.
source: pg-settings-source-snapshot
unit: ms
vartype: integer

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Terminate replication connections that are inactive for longer than this amount of time. This is useful for the receiving standby server to detect a primary node crash or network outage. If this value is specified without units, it is taken as milliseconds. The default value is 60 seconds. A value of zero disables the timeout mechanism. This parameter can only be set in the postgresql.conf file or on the server command line.

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<p>
        Terminate replication connections that are inactive for longer
        than this amount of time. This is useful for
        the receiving standby server to detect a primary node crash or network
        outage.
        If this value is specified without units, it is taken as milliseconds.
        The default value is 60 seconds.
        A value of zero disables the timeout mechanism.
        This parameter can only be set in
        the <code class="filename">postgresql.conf</code> file or on the server
        command line.
       </p>

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