On 11/1/11 10:34 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> So, we have four potential paths regarding recovery.conf:
>>
>> 1) Break backwards compatibility entirely, and stop supporting recovery.conf as a trigger file at all.
>
> Note that is exactly what I have suggested when using "standby" mode
> from pg_ctl.
I wasn't clear on that from the description of your proposal. So are
you suggesting that, if we start postgresql with "pg_ctl standby" then
recovery.conf would not behave as a trigger file?
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Josh Berkus
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