Re: recovery.conf location

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The idea of relying on the existence of recovery.conf to determine
>> whether we should continue recovery forever or switch to normal
>> running seems somewhat klunky to me. �It mixes up settings with
>> control information. �Maybe the control information should move to
>> pg_control, and the settings to postgresql.conf. �*waves hands*

> You mean to move standby_mode to postgresql.conf, and determine
> whether the server should start in standby mode or not by considering
> of standby_mode and the status information in pg_control?

I think keeping the status information in a transient text file may
still be a good design choice.  If you push it into pg_control it will
be impossible to modify by hand.
        regards, tom lane