Re: Should we remove "not fast" promotion at all?

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:20:42AM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> I think "promote" file should trigger the fast promotion, and the
>> filename to trigger the slow mode should be called
>> "fallback_promote" or "safe_promote" or something like that. There
>> wasn't any good reason to change the filename primarily used. It
>> might even break people's scripts for no good reason, if people are
>> creating the $PGDATA/promote file themselves without using pg_ctl.
>> 
>> (I raised this back in April, but Simon argued strongly for the
>> current situation. I never understood why.
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/517798AE.30203@vmware.com)

> +1

If we're going to change this in 9.3, it needs to happen *now*, as in
the next couple hours, because I plan to wrap rc1 this afternoon.
Please stop discussing and commit something.
        regards, tom lane