Re: unite recovery.conf and postgresql.conf

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
> > Standard conforming strings
> > was tricky because it was more user-facing, or certainly SQL-facing.
> 
> Why is SQL more important than backup?

Because the percentage of database users it affects is different. 
Administrators know when they are installing a new version of Postgres
and already are probably changing these configuration files. 
Application binaries and perhaps application developers are not as aware
of a change, and there are a far higher percentage of them in an
organization than administrators.

> There is no good reason to do this so quickly.

I just gave you a reason above, and as I said, doing backward
compatibility can make the system more complex.

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