Re: patch proposal

Venkata,

* Venkata B Nagothi (nag1010@gmail.com) wrote:
> Agreed. Additional option like "pause" would. As long as there is an option
> to ensure following happens if the recovery target is not reached -
>
>  a) PG pauses the recovery at the end of the WAL
>  b) Generates a warning in the log file saying that recovery target point
> is not reached (there is a patch being worked upon on by Thom on this)
>  c) Does not open-up the database exiting from the recovery process by
> giving room to resume the replay of WALs

One thing to consider is just how different this is from simply bringing
PG up as a warm standby instead, with the warning added to indicate if
the recovery point wasn't reached.

Thanks!

Stephen