Re: Recovery bug

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:02 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
>> Yep, to automatically delete backup_label and continue recovery seems to be
>> dangerous. How about just emitting FATAL error when neither restore_command
>> nor primary_conninfo is supplied and backup_label exists? This seems to be
>> simpler than your proposed patch (i.e., check whether REDO location exists).
>>
>
> Either is fine with me.
>
> Do users have any expectation that they can restore a backup without
> using recovery.conf by merely having the WAL segments in pg_xlog?

I would expect that to work.

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