Re: New trigger option of pg_standby

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Guillaume Smet
<guillaume.smet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, I agree... but there may be scripts for warm-standby based on
>> the existing default behavior. So, I didn't make a new trigger the default.
>
> I don't use pg_standby personnaly but I admit I'm quite surprised by
> the current behaviour. I'm pretty sure a lot of the current users
> would be surprised too.

The current behavior is documented as follows, so it may be
taken for granted by some users. I think that we shouldn't
ignore such users.

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Specify a trigger file whose presence should cause recovery to
end whether or not the next WAL file is available.
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Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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