Re: Hot standby, recovery_starts_paused

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 01:43 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> recovery_starts_paused is useless as it is. It pauses the recovery right
> after the first WAL record, all right, but before we see a running-xacts
> record, we won't let any backends in. And if you can't connect, you
> can't unpause, so it's stuck forever.

Hmmm, strange. That was an earlier bug; I thought I'd fixed that.

> It should probably behave as "pause after reaching WAL record that
> allows backends to connect".

Agreed, thanks.

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