[check_postgres] check_hot_standby_delay question

[bricklen]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume at lelarge.info> wrote:
> Le 08/02/2011 17:17, bricklen a écrit :
>> The question I
>> have relates to the "check_hot_standby_delay" check: I can't seem to
>> puzzle out what the return value corresponds to when it calculates the
>> delta between the master and the slave WAL offsets. Is the returned
>> value the number of transactions that have not yet been applied to the
>> standby? Microseconds? I've checked out transaction IDs, and the
>> numbers I'm getting don't seem to be anywhere in the same range as the
>> return value from the check.
>>
> Nope, it is a number of bytes not yet applied to the slave.
>
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Aha! Thank you for clearing that up.

Cheers,

Bricklen