Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Reduce the chatter to the log when starting a standby server.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> That doesn't accurately describe what the standby_mode setting does. It
> doesn't imply streaming replication. It means that the server doesn't
> end recovery when it reaches end of WAL, but keeps trying.

I think I'm going to add my name to the list of people who are unhappy
with standby_mode as a parameter name.  I really like the design of
the feature, but the name is just not that clear.  You can't read that
parameter name and immediately know what it's trying to do.
Furthermore, if you're wanting to use pg_standby, you might be
forgiven for thinking that you should set standby_mode = on; but in
fact that's exactly the wrong thing to do.

One possibility that occurs to me is that we could call it something
like integrated_standby; but I'm not attached to that.

...Robert