Re: Turning recovery.conf into GUCs

On 2/19/15 4:33 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 02/19/2015 12:23 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 1/6/15 4:22 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> That said, there is a much simpler way to achieve that specific
>>> functionality: Expose all the recovery settings as fake read-only GUC
>>> variables.  See attached patch for an example.
>>
>> The commit fest app has this as the patch of record.  I don't think
>> there is a real updated patch under consideration here.  This item
>> should probably not be in the commit fest at all.
> 
> What happened to the original patch?  Regardless of what we do, keeping
> recovery.conf the way it is can't be what we go forward with.

There was disagreement on many of the details, and no subsequent new
proposal.