Re: pgsql: Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf

On 2018-Nov-26, Stephen Frost wrote:

> I would think we'd have the different GUCs and then the check functions
> would only validate that they're valid inputs and then when we get to
> the point where we're starting to do recovery we check and make sure
> we've been given a sane overall configuration- which means that only
> *one* is set, and it matches the recovery target requested.

I don't quite understand why it isn't sensible to specify more than one
and just stop recovery (or whatever) when at least one of them becomes
true.  Maybe I want to terminate just before commit of transaction
12345, but no later than 2018-11-11 12:47 in any case.

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