Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: If recovery_target_timeline is set to 'latest' and standby mode

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 20:16, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi> wrote:
> If recovery_target_timeline is set to 'latest' and standby mode is enabled,
> periodically rescan the archive for new timelines, while waiting for new WAL
> segments to arrive. This allows you to set up a standby server that follows
> the TLI change if another standby server is promoted to master. Before this,
> you had to restart the standby server to make it notice the new timeline.

Can we make recovery_target_timeline='latest' the default when we are
in standby mode? That would suddenly make it a lot easier to "repoint
a slave" after a switchover...

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