Re: Is Recovery actually paused?

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 6:10 AM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 to just show the recovery pause state in the output of
> pg_is_wal_replay_paused. But, should the function name
> "pg_is_wal_replay_paused" be something like
> "pg_get_wal_replay_pause_state" or some other? To me, when "is" exists
> in a function, I expect a boolean output. Others may have better
> thoughts.

Maybe we should leave the existing function pg_is_wal_replay_paused()
alone and add a new one with the name you suggest that returns text.
That would create less burden for tool authors.

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