Re: recovery.conf location

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
> I noticed that there's no way to specify the location of recovery.conf
> in postgresql.conf.  The pg_hba and pg_ident files can be altered, so
> I'm wondering why this file can't have a specified location.  In
> Ubuntu, all configuration files are in a different location to the
> cluster by default, so the postgresql.conf file comes with the
> hba_file and ident_file parameters set to the configuration directory.
>  I'd imagine it would be preferable to keep all conf files in the same
> place.

+1

That parameter would be useful when user makes multiple standbys see
the same recovery.conf located in NFS or elsewhere.

Regards,

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